Psychological condition in which individuals have sores that they believe contain fibrous material.

  • @glimse
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    1011 months ago

    With all due respect, the provided description feels a bit misleading

    Morgellons is the informal name of a self-diagnosed, scientifically unsubstantiated skin condition … the general medical consensus is that it is a form of delusional parasitosis, on the psychiatric spectrum

    The woman who named the “condition” was not a doctor and every study since done since she first claimed its existence 22 years ago has concluded it’s purely psychological.

    • Hellfire103OP
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      311 months ago

      Yeah, I just copied that from the metadata. I’ll fix it.

  • @[email protected]
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    511 months ago

    Fred Heldrich, a Johns Hopkins pediatrician with a reputation “for solving mystery cases”

    Does he walk with a cane and have a raging Vicodin addiction?