As a fellow stress puker who has tried FUCKING EVERYTHING, including way more valium than I should have been taking to quell the debilitating stomach pains, there’s only so much we can control. You can take tranquilizers, you can smoke weed, you can avoid certain foods and sip ginger water, you’re still gonna get the…

It’s horrifying, isn’t it? I once stumbled across a Morgellons message board while looking for possible causes for a mysterious foot and ankle rash (turned out I needed to stop taking OTC anti-inflammatories was all). It made for very compelling reading, and also deeply upsetting. I felt terrible for all of them. It’s…

My aunt “has” Morgellons. I “had” something similar in 2010. I was obsessed with ingrown hairs, to the point that I believed I had almost twice as much hair as I actually had, but it was ‘trapped’ under the skin of my scalp and therefore I had to free it with my fingernails. I waxed all the skin off my chin because I…

In the summer of 2002, I came home from college to find all the furniture in my mother’s home piled in the center of the living room as she attacked it with some sort of spray. My sister, who just finished first grade, had a head lice scare at school and she was being proactive.

Try convincing someone with a psycho-somatic disease that what they believe to be physical is all in their head when they can feel it, see it, and smell it. It is literally part of the symptomology, they believe it is physical.