Reply #49: Morgellons at least sounds like a hysterical condition

[woo me with science]

and many physicians in Texas are treating it as one.

There appears to be a link with Lyme disease, with as many as 40 percent of the reports coming from people who have supposedly been diagnosed with Lyme disease. But the diagnosis of Lyme disease in this country has spun out of control, with fly-by-night "specialized" labs diagnosing the condition in epidemic numbers based on criteria that the CDC does not recognize as reasonable. It is hugely overdiagnosed based on vague, nonspecific complaints that are probably psychologically based. Lyme disease diagnosis is a lot like diagnosis of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome now. You just have to find the right doctor and the right lab, and anyone can be diagnosed.

Morgellons looks to me like a case of hysteria, in part being publicized and spread by the same folks who gave you "epidemic" Lyme disease.