Psychiatry and Morgellons Disease

Psychiatric Arsenal Has Weapons Against Morgellons Disease

Joan Arehart-Treichel

What would you do to help a patient who tells you he or she has morgellons disease?

Most morgellon patients are flocking to dermatologists or family doctors rather than to psychiatrists because they believe that their condition is a skin disease, not of psychological origin. Yet if a patient should appear in your office asking for help, what should you do?

Some psychiatrists who have had contact with morgellons patients, delusional parasitosis patients, or both offer some suggestions.

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New Morgellons Article

New article discusses various theories on Morgellons and what is currently being done.

Strange List of Symptoms Perplexes Patients, Doctors

Joan Arehart-Treichel

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The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta is so concerned about the numbers of people said to be suffering from the illness that in June it set up a task force to look for its cause. The task force includes experts in infectious diseases, environmental toxicity, pathology, and psychiatry, said Dan Rutz, the CDC spokesperson for the task force, in an interview. The task force had expected to be up and running by now, Rutz admitted, "but we're just not.... It is just taking a long time to agree on the protocol with this many disciplines represented."
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Do you have Morgellons Disease?

Common symptoms include:
Itching and/or stinging sensations on the skin
The sensation of crawling or biting, like there are bugs on or in the skin
The expulsion of fiberous material, similar to textile fibers (commonly known as Morgies)
Open lesions that are not healing and may exhibit black seed-like deposits
Difficulty concentrating or trouble remembering

The distinct combination of several or all of these symptoms may lead your diagnosis away from a simple parasite infestation and towards Morgellons. Treatment may be similar to that of a parasite infestation, though new treatments are sure to be developed and tested as further research is completed. Make sure to save samples, if possible, to bring with you to a doctor or dermatologist. Websites, such as the Morgellons Reasearch Foundation, have images to assist you in your self-diagnosis.

Morgellons Symptoms

I ran across a good site listing the symptoms of Morgellons along with 'daring presumptions' of what each symptom might be or might be caused by. They discuss fibers, fuzzballs, capsules, granules, worms, etc.

Check it out here: Morgellons European Information