Under My Skin: Morgellons Disease

EPISODE 60 | Under My Skin: Morgellons Disease

A boy with a rash, a concerned mother, the internet and a lack of medical knowledge combine to create the phenomenon known as Morgellons Disease. It's a nefarious condition where coloured fibers appear under your skin, causing fatigue and pain, possibly placed there by evil forces. Or it might be a mental delusion transmitted from person to person by reading about it on the internet.

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SECTIONS

1. 02:01 - Mary Leitao coins a phrase, gains a following
2. 07:12 - Doctors take a look, Morgellons spreads
3. 13:28 - Factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA) or Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP), conspiracy folks especially vunerable
4. 19:51 - Munchausen by internet & cybermuchers
5. 22:03 - Steve Leary lies Down Under, Steve Kirsch lies for profit
6. 24:32 - Delusional parasitosis (DP), dopamine, matchbox signs, folie à deux, folie à internet, quack cures, memes are viruses
7. 31:03 - More doctors take a closer look, mental or not - sufferers really do suffer
8. 33:45 - Polly Murray & Lyme Disease
9. 38:20 - Quck alt-medicine, chronic Lyme disease, illness for political gain, a Plum Island plot, Jeff Rense & the NWO
10. 43:35 - GMOs, chemtrails, nanobots, aliens, mind control, depopulation, paranoia, "mutated arthropods" & e-fibers, parasite Hulda Clark hates parasites
11. 47:15 - Probably a suite of issues, somatic symptom disorder, Better Call Saul, mind and body are one, morgies deserve empathy

• Music by Fanette Ronjat

MORE INFO:

• Mass Hysteria & Shared Delusions episode
• Morgellons on Healthline
• Morgellons on MedicineNet
• Morgellons on WebMD
• Morgellon disease: A case report in European Psychiatry
• History of Morgellons disease: from delusion to definition
• Is Morgellons Disease Real or a Delusional Disorder?
• Article on Mary Leitao in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Letter to a Friend by Sir Thomas Browne
• Essay on Browne's text in the Annals of Medical History
• Mary Leitao's Morgellons Research Foundation 
• 'Morgellons' Mystery from ABC News
• Morgellons disease: Managing an unexplained skin condition from the Mayo Clinic
• The curious case of Morgellons disease on Mind Hacks
• Morgellons article in Scientific American
• The Devil’s Bait in Harper's
• Munchausen: Unusual Suspects in Psychology Today
• LA Times article on Polly Murray
• A Connecticut housewife in Francis Bacon's court: Polly Murray and Lyme disease
• Common Threads: An Inspection of the Morgellons Community on the MENSA website
• What Happens When Lyme Disease Becomes an Identity? on The Cut
• MY RESPONSE TO, “WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LYME DISEASE BECOMES AN IDENTITY” by the Blanced Blonde
• Lyme-Related Government Actions on Quackwatch
• Morgellon’s Syndrome - Scientific? Surreal? …or extra-terrestrial?
• Moregllons episode of Skeptoid podcast
• Steve Kirsch on Politifact
• The Bizarre Claims of Hulda Clark on Quackwatch
• The Philadelphia Experiment & the Montauk Project - Time Tunnel Vision episode

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