Psychological condition in which individuals have sores that they believe contain fibrous material.
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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.
Yeah, I just copied that from the metadata. I’ll fix it.
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?
We can only hope.
AKA Munchausen by proxy.
