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semillama

(4,583 posts)
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 03:09 PM Apr 2012

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 they’re infected, which causes irritation and open lesions, which they assume is from the same parasite.

The CDC has officially classified Morgellons as delusional parasitosis. It’s 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 wouldn’t work."

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The Worst Things For Sale: Morgellons Spray Treatment (Original Post) semillama Apr 2012 OP
Damn...why didn't I think of that? laconicsax Apr 2012 #1
Because most people are too ethical to rip off mentally ill people. Odin2005 May 2012 #8
But, but, but... EvolveOrConvolve May 2012 #9
What a deal! Selling something to cure a disease that MineralMan Apr 2012 #2
The disease being called Morgellons is not delusional. DragonTat2 May 2012 #3
that is interesting, thank you. uppityperson May 2012 #4
Here's some more reading Paulie May 2012 #5
I went to CDC and read what was there also. And Mayo, 1 of my favorite med sites. uppityperson May 2012 #6
"I have it. I know it is not delusional" jberryhill Jun 2012 #10
Not so fast. HuckleB Jun 2012 #12
Ah, but those authors don't *have* Morgellons. laconicsax Jun 2012 #13
Schizophrenics think the voices in thead head are real, too. Odin2005 Jun 2012 #14
Taking advantage of the mentally ill is nothing new. Odin2005 May 2012 #7
That sounds like a horrible condition Marrah_G Jun 2012 #11

EvolveOrConvolve

(6,452 posts)
9. But, but, but...
Sun May 6, 2012, 05:57 PM
May 2012

Atheists and skeptics and "free thinkers" don't have any ethics! Cuz we don't have jebus in our hearts!

MineralMan

(147,578 posts)
2. What a deal! Selling something to cure a disease that
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 07:21 PM
Apr 2012

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.

uppityperson

(115,871 posts)
4. that is interesting, thank you.
Sun May 6, 2012, 01:44 PM
May 2012

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.

uppityperson

(115,871 posts)
6. I went to CDC and read what was there also. And Mayo, 1 of my favorite med sites.
Sun May 6, 2012, 02:16 PM
May 2012

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)
10. "I have it. I know it is not delusional"
Mon Jun 11, 2012, 11:37 PM
Jun 2012

How often would you guesstimate that persons suffering from a delusion are able to tell whether or not they are suffering from a delusion?

 

laconicsax

(14,860 posts)
13. Ah, but those authors don't *have* Morgellons.
Wed Jun 20, 2012, 08:08 PM
Jun 2012

They can't know it's a delusion unless they have the it...or something like that.

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