New documentary coming out on mysterious skin/psych disorder morgellons

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Have you ever met someone who has had this "disorder"....where they think worm fibers are coming out of their skin?

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yes i've met meth heads before

While formication, the sensation of bugs on or under your skin is a real symptom with several causes, the fibers coming out of one's skin is bogus.

I've had flu symptoms for 3 weeks. I've had cultures taken, blood tests, etc.

Doctors have no answers.

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Reminiscent of Jennifer Brea’s “Unrest” (2017), which relates her struggle to get doctors to take her crippling chronic fatigue seriously

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Wow this sounds like my cousin. He goes to lots of doctors to get the medicine he needs for his fibromyalgia and sometimes they won’t even give him the medicine. Doctors are a heartless bunch

It's a manifestation of OCD. I feel bad for the people that suffer with this and the doctors that try to curb it.

A lot of the patients come up with crazy stuff like it's some sorta alien virus or genetic experimentation that escaped.

It doesn't help that a lot of them when they send clothing fibers in can't understand the results and determine the unknown inorganic matter is a real unknown and not just that the sample was bad or the test used can't determine the material because it isn't supposed to.

Wiki has a pretty much intact explanation. I'd figure it would be vandalized more.

The old reports I read had more of a passive role for Leitao's son. She described as seeing it on his arm or neck orange and blue fibers and went with the toy microscope from there. It seems they've moved off the OCD since I last read up on it.

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Mary Leitao,[3] a mother who rejected the medical diagnosis of her son's delusional parasitosis, named the supposed disease in 2002. She revived it from a letter written by a physician in the mid-17th century.[4] Leitao and others involved in her Morgellons Research Foundation successfully lobbied members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate the condition in 2006.[5][6] CDC researchers issued the results of their multi-year study in January 2012, indicating that no disease organisms were present in people with so-called "Morgellons", that the fibers were likely cotton, and concluded that the condition was "similar to more commonly recognized conditions such as delusional infestation".[7][8]

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Mary Leitao,[3] a mother who rejected the medical diagnosis of her son's delusional parasitosis, named the supposed disease in 2002. She revived it from a letter written by a physician in the mid-17th century.[4] Leitao and others involved in her Morgellons Research Foundation successfully lobbied members of the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate the condition in 2006.[5][6] CDC researchers issued the results of their multi-year study in January 2012, indicating that no disease organisms were present in people with so-called "Morgellons", that the fibers were likely cotton, and concluded that the condition was "similar to more commonly recognized conditions such as delusional infestation".[7][8]

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Iirc there is a big movement about it in the UK too.

CDC results.

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In June 2007, the CDC opened a website relating to Morgellons, CDC Study of an Unexplained Dermopathy, and by November 2007, the CDC opened an investigation into the condition.[6] Kaiser Permanente, a health-care consortium in Northern California, was chosen to assist with the investigation, which involved skin biopsies from affected people and characterization of foreign material such as fibers or threads obtained from people to determine their potential source.[6][34] The U.S. Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and the American Academy of Dermatology assisted with pathology.[35] In January 2012, the CDC released the results of the study.[7][8].

Their conclusions were that 59% of subjects showed cognitive deficits and 63% had evidence of clinically significant symptoms. 50% had drugs in their systems 78% reported exposure to solvents (potential skin irritants). No parasites or mycobacteria were detected in the samples collected from any patients. Most materials collected from participants' skin were composed of cellulose, likely of cotton origin.[7]

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