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Under My Skin: Morgellons Disease

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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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