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Seemingly balanced Washington Post piece on the weird phenomenon that is "Morgellons disease". After reading it, I lean toward believing there is a significant psychological component, but the article seems to raise some reasonable questions.
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About 20 years ago, a friend/colleague of mine described the difficulties of getting his wife diagnosed and treated with what is now known as fibromyalgia. She had large amounts of pain for no apparent (at that time) reason in unusual places. Some treatments helped for a while and then stopped. Some tests showed some results then later the same test would not.
Newish problems suffered by relatively low numbers can be very difficult to understand.
My friend's wife was also 'urged' to seek psychiatric help. She did. That didn't help. One difficulty is that pain and illness can also give rise to emotional problems.
I'm with you, here. I suspect a very large psychological problem, bit I wouldn't dismiss an underlying physical cause.
Posted by: JorgXMcKie | January 30, 2008 at 10:37 AM