Sydenham's Chorea (Involuntary Movements)

St. Vitus' dance - involuntary, jerking movements - is read as nervous tension overflowing. The pattern is a very emotional person repressing a great deal of aggressiveness, often having experienced their upbringing as rigid and perfectionist, who now externalises that buried worry and bitterness through the body. There is a sense of being backed against the wall, short of time, with something about to "explode" - perhaps one's own held emotions, or a family secret pressing to surface. The short explanation's "severe emotional stress" is exactly that overflow. Relief is described as letting the repressed feeling out in safe ways, easing the inner pressure before it has to discharge through the body.

Example from the findings: the involuntary movements are read as repressed aggression and worry overflowing when something is about to "explode" inside.