Treating something, nonexistent or otherwise, gets rid of your ability to have and talk about it. If your friend is constantly documenting and sharing her experiences, my guess is that she falls into that group?

I believe that that typically happens in the U.S. if you’re diagnosed with Münchausen’s and you’re abusing the system with things like doctor-shopping. I think that’s also why doctors are usually very reluctant to do diagnose that, especially when you add in the fact that it does the patient no good...not like they’re…

Where did you think I got it from...

I don’t know how it gets paid for, to be honest. She certainly has insurance. I think that because she does exhibit uncontrollable hyperventilation (which she is aware of) and a serious panic attack (which the doctors are aware of), she has medical basis for being there, so the insurance could cover it. I’ve never…

Ugh. I think I prefer our system, where you get diagnosed if you have even so much as a tiny unexplained cramp. I couldn’t handle not being listened to like that.

I’m from New England and live along the woods, so I wind up with it for a summer every ten years or so. It sucks.

The fact that their symptoms are bound to psychiatric disorder does not lessen their pain but enhances it.

Morgellons is really big within the self-diagnosed Lyme disease and CFS communities as well. People who unwittingly make life harder for actual patients by spending all day on Mercola and sending lawsuit threats to the FDA. Because the government knows it will give them too much power if the secret is out!!!!!

I know a guy who’s big on sites like BroBible and TotalFratMove. He was a Pike ringleader at Trinity who majored in Ski Weekends at Stowe. He now works part-time for his dad’s firm and is still trying to get through 3L on his second or third try. He is somewhere around 33 or 34.

This cat shares my thoughts on the proceedings.

The MTV Movie Awards is where incredibly funny people go to have all the funny sucked out of them by overproduction, an uninterested crowd, shitty input from shitty MTV execs on the writing, etc. Conan last year, Amy this year...who will be next year’s victim?

Something something Rainier Wolfcastle?

Still getting used to the Australian PM being in the U.S. news more than the UK's PM. Feels like it's been this way for close to two years. Abbott's on CNN every other time I put it on. Something something world turned upside down.

I apparently did not understand “hot take” at all! Based on the only context in which I ever see it — #hottake — I thought it simply meant “shitty opinion proffered by a baseball columnist or ESPN personality who will now be shit on throughout my Twitter timeline for the next three hours.”

Not the cat’s fault you can’t monetize mouse carcasses.

I'm a registered Republican because I live in a closed primary state and I like to vote for their most liberal candidate.

I had no stance on him until I saw this interview and decided that he's the best.

I hope so. It was never a place I'd heard of growing up but I know that it has an important tradition and niche that it fills. It would be sad to see it go. Too many women's colleges (and HBCUs, too) have been lost in recent years.

I gave a few to SavingSweetBriar.com because I felt like it was my duty as a Seven Sisters alumna. When it's inevitably unsuccessful, they're using the collected funds for scholarships to make sure SBC students can finish up somewhere, so it's no real loss.

I have a dear friend who has CF and none of his coworkers know. Which is particularly shocking when you consider that he did his fellowship in pulmonology at Harvard and now works at one of the city's big med centers.