mouseonmoon
May12-04, 10:42 PM
This is fascinating: Delusional Parasitosis
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/05/08/70309.php
5/8/04- Reno Gazette
quotes:
"It's dangerous to reinforce their delusion."
Medical textbooks and journals warn that when a patient visits a
doctor with samples of "parasites" removed from their skin, it's
usually an ominous sign of mental illness.
The medical books also have an explanation for family members or
friends of patients who witness the strange fibers or parasites.
It's called "folie a deux" =97 a French term meaning "the madness
of two." If more than one person testifies to seeing the
symptoms, then it's called "the madness of three," and so on.
Thus, witnesses don't count because being a witness is considered
evidence of sharing the patient's delusions."
((And then 'family and friends' become a 'cult')):
"Adams said he is not familiar with the Morgellon's Research
Foundation, but said it sounds like a "cult" in which the members
reinforce each other's psychosomatic symptoms.
((Dr. Jay Adams, a Carson City dermatologist))
Yet patients a continent apart have reported the same symptoms
and strange parasites long before seeing the Morgellon's Web site
or talking to other patients with similar symptoms. All said
their doctors made a snap diagnosis of delusions.
Lobelia Sharp, a plant pathologist at the University of
California San Francisco, said she's had the lesions, fibers and
other symptoms for about six months. She was diagnosed with
delusional parasitosis, she said.
"I kept insisting that the doctors look at the fibers coming out
of my skin," she said. "They said the answer was
anti-depressants, chemical restraints. I was taken to the
hospital by ambulance and held in the mental ward."
"Diseases are defined within a box and thus everything outside
that box isn't the disease," Harvey said. "That's the way
medicine and science evolves. All definitions in all texts change
continuously. In this case we know enough to broaden the size of
the box....."
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in other words-faced with the 'unknown'- like seeing wierd things in the skies-
the 'expert' opinion: you're crazy! (and everybody with you!)
great article-thanks to:
From: Frank Warren <frank-warren.nul>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 07:25:08 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:25:17 -0400
Subject: Delusional Parasitosis A Medical Mystery
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2004/may/m10-001.shtml
http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/05/08/70309.php
5/8/04- Reno Gazette
quotes:
"It's dangerous to reinforce their delusion."
Medical textbooks and journals warn that when a patient visits a
doctor with samples of "parasites" removed from their skin, it's
usually an ominous sign of mental illness.
The medical books also have an explanation for family members or
friends of patients who witness the strange fibers or parasites.
It's called "folie a deux" =97 a French term meaning "the madness
of two." If more than one person testifies to seeing the
symptoms, then it's called "the madness of three," and so on.
Thus, witnesses don't count because being a witness is considered
evidence of sharing the patient's delusions."
((And then 'family and friends' become a 'cult')):
"Adams said he is not familiar with the Morgellon's Research
Foundation, but said it sounds like a "cult" in which the members
reinforce each other's psychosomatic symptoms.
((Dr. Jay Adams, a Carson City dermatologist))
Yet patients a continent apart have reported the same symptoms
and strange parasites long before seeing the Morgellon's Web site
or talking to other patients with similar symptoms. All said
their doctors made a snap diagnosis of delusions.
Lobelia Sharp, a plant pathologist at the University of
California San Francisco, said she's had the lesions, fibers and
other symptoms for about six months. She was diagnosed with
delusional parasitosis, she said.
"I kept insisting that the doctors look at the fibers coming out
of my skin," she said. "They said the answer was
anti-depressants, chemical restraints. I was taken to the
hospital by ambulance and held in the mental ward."
"Diseases are defined within a box and thus everything outside
that box isn't the disease," Harvey said. "That's the way
medicine and science evolves. All definitions in all texts change
continuously. In this case we know enough to broaden the size of
the box....."
=====
in other words-faced with the 'unknown'- like seeing wierd things in the skies-
the 'expert' opinion: you're crazy! (and everybody with you!)
great article-thanks to:
From: Frank Warren <frank-warren.nul>
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 07:25:08 -0700
Fwd Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:25:17 -0400
Subject: Delusional Parasitosis A Medical Mystery
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2004/may/m10-001.shtml