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