The Worst Things For Sale: Morgellons Spray Treatment
I love this blog, but this entry rules them all:
http://theworstthingsforsale.com/post/21320999096/morgellons-is-a-medical-condition-where-people-are
"Morgellons is a medical condition where people are convinced that threads or fibers are emerging from their skin. The real origin of threads on the skin, as you might imagine, are from clothing, but the sufferers believe they are infected with an invisible parasite. They scratch their skin, convinced theyre infected, which causes irritation and open lesions, which they assume is from the same parasite.
The CDC has officially classified Morgellons as delusional parasitosis. Its despicable, then, that companies are selling products which claim to treat Morgellons. The real treatment for this condition is therapy and medication, but, of course, there is an imaginary and costly alternative treatment to this malady. For only $89.95, you get bottles and tubs of inert chemicals to spray and spread on yourself.
It would be nice if we could set up an alternative jail system to treat practitioners of alternative medicine. It would be like real jail, except it would cost them a lot more, and it wouldnt work."
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)EvolveOrConvolve
(6,452 posts)Atheists and skeptics and "free thinkers" don't have any ethics! Cuz we don't have jebus in our hearts!
MineralMan
(147,578 posts)doesn't really exist. It could be nothing but expired hair pomade or something. Does no harm; does no good. What a deal!
Please, no Morgellon's stories. Please.
DragonTat2
(1 post)uppityperson
(115,871 posts)It looks like it can be psych but may not be. I wonder if it is like chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, etc, over used in many cases, appropriate in some, etc.
Sounds like a pain.
Paulie
(8,464 posts)uppityperson
(115,871 posts)My take is it is a broadly applied diagnosis that covers a lot of different things. Provable skin issues to psych issues. Like schizophrenia used to be broadly used for every psych condition that didn't fit a few things, but now has been more clearly defined and those other "misc" psych things now have their own diagnoses also.
And like fm, cf, used inappropriately in many cases. Not provable, used too broadly = wtf sort of thing.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)How often would you guesstimate that persons suffering from a delusion are able to tell whether or not they are suffering from a delusion?
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Morgellons Creating a New Disease
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/morgellons-creating-a-new-disease/
Delusional Parasitosis
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/delusional-parasitosis/
laconicsax
(14,860 posts)They can't know it's a delusion unless they have the it...or something like that.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)I can't imagine having delusions like THAT all day and night.