http://www.fbi.gov/hq/lab/fsc/backissu/july2000/deedric1.htm#Human%20Hairs

Alternating light and dark bands in hair can be caused by trichothiodystrophy, which is a genetic disorder. Fluorescence in hairs can be caused by fungus, such as scalp ringworm.

Why do you ask?

I am amazed. Floored. 2 years at Kaiser, several upon several differant medications. Oral and topical.

What got me was the fact I have shelled out over $10,000.00 for my dear sweet doggie and have yet to have the vets come up with what they “allergy/infection” was that caused boils with fibers. She had an on again off again rash and 106 fever.
* We spoil her with fluffy toys that she shreds all over the house.

I would comment to my husband that our dog and I seem to have the same disease. I even went as far as thinking (after watching too much court tv) that I was being poisoned. Our neighbor poisons the squirrels and I protest, so he was “my” suspect.

My husband too, said I was psycho.

Glowie Huntress, we have the dog, the husband, the same condition, and I too am a blonde. I will say that I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I get by just fine.

Why doesn’t my husband have it? Obviously I am much sweeter, but I’m also consider that I am home much more than he is. The dog and I hang out in the same area together all the time. The house is over 3,000 sq ft and he spends most of his time toying with a Camaro restoration.

I was doing research on my disease after another visit to Kaiser yesterday had me almost to the point I was going to go postal and wipe out the entire staff. As I read the posts, websites, and blogs, I became even more confused. Then I got to places where people are verbally beating the hell out of each other and bickering over what they think and what they know.

Let me start with “I don’t know sh*t” But after all of the reading I know some people sound really mean and judgemental. I also know that Glowie Huntress’s story mirrors to a ‘T’ , exactly what my last two years have been like.

THANK YOU for putting yourself out there Glowie. My only desire is to state that I have no motive financial or other wise and Glowie’s story is not an isolated incident.

Good Luck to all and please try and be a little bit more considerate when posting with opinions and ‘your’ facts. Even if we are ‘psycho’ that too is an illness.

Many skin disorders take their roots from, or place their roots in, the psyche.

If you think you might be experiencing “morgellons disease” symptoms just after hearing about it, you could just have a little bit of an initial gullibility problem you might need to try getting a handle on. Not a big deal, once you rationalize the situation.

If you’ve had pre-existing symptoms that seem to match up to it, there’s a good chance that you’re someone who’s already been diagnosed, and refused to cooperate with your doctor(s).

That means that you’re likely to know you’ve been told that you have a delusional disorder, and something very deeply rooted in your psyche, that caused that state to develop, made you too prideful to think it could ever happen to you. By believing that you’re above the rest of the human race — who understands that our brains are another one of our organs than can develop illness, the same as any organ — are you happy with where it’s gotten you so far?

You’re senses are deceiving you, you feel like you’re losing your mind, and everyone you know treats you as though you have. How is it that you think mental illness occurs, or signals itself? Nobody gets up and just looks in the mirror one day to see a big stamp across their forehead, that says, “Hey,________, you are mentally ill, and need to get help for it”. Sirens and alarms don’t sound. There are no bells, whistles, or flashing red lights.

Your warnings, your LOUD warnings, are: A. How you feel like you may be losing your mind. B. How others react to you. C. What you were diagnosed with. What you’ve gotten for yourself by believing in “morgellons disease”, a disease that doesn’t exist, is that you’ve added another gigantic delusion on top of your original one(s).

“Knock-knock”…”Who’s there?” — It’s what used to be your brain before this happened. You say you want your life back. You have missed all your cues. So, how come?

That’s how delusional disorders work, and you’ve joined up with other delusional patients who also won’t treat it. Your shared delusions have been heavily, and deeply, reinforced. That puts everyone in a bigger world of shit than they were already in, before “munchausen mom” started her internet madness. Tam-Tam is a sick person too, and he’s not who you have deluded yourselves into believing he is, either, continuously sliding deeper into the abyss, further and further, with more delusions top of each other.

If you expect the general public to think your support/advocacy group consists of rational thinking persons, stricken ill by a new disease that we all need to be warned about…seriously, that’s only another sign of your delusional illness. You may be functional on several levels, but you’re too mentally ill to heed all the signs you’ve received. The tragedy of not treating it, which would be so simple, is worth the trade-off, because _________________________

…you finish the rest of the sentence.

Medication is the only way out. Behavior modification can help too. The life you’ve chosen to live by not assisting yourself is having a profound effect on numerous others around you, too. When any of us chose the behavior, we’ve also chosen the consequences. That’s the harsh reality of life. Think about it, do you “really” want your life back?

YOUR LIFE. How does getting YOUR LIFE back have anything to do with bonding with a bunch of other severely mentally ill patients who’ve also exercised their right to not treat their condition(s)? If anyone is able to reflect on that for themselves, do it. Leave out that “you all have a new disease, and that there is strength in numbers”. Just get real, and drop that self-deception you’re clinging to, and ask yourself what uniting with a group like that is doing towards helping YOU move into the direction of getting YOUR former life back. That’s too much to ask, right? You know why it is, too. You have a serious mental illness.

Michael has provided plenty of information on the fact that many skin disorders take their roots from, or place their roots in, the psyche. Information is all over the internet, too. I’m not so naive to think that anything I say is paid any attention to by anyone who needs to have “morgellons disease” in their life. My messages are only for anyone who has a strong enough sense of self, as well as selflessness, to do what’s needed to get well. That’s who I’m talking to…not to a whining wimp, but to a true warrior. Those are the people who really want their lives back, and know that they have to do the right thing, and stop screwing around in the land of the lost. They’ll put actions to their words before they end up losing the game.

It is to you, I offer this:

http://www.webmd.com/content/Article/78/95693.htm?pagenumber=1

It is to all the really sick people who think Michael is anything other than a retired computer programmer, with a caring heart, that I say how damned sorry I am that your suspicions prove that you’ve never known what it’s like to care about other people.

I don’t think you understand what you are encouraging people to do. People who believe that they have Morgellons are suffering from a wide variety of health problems. Many of them may be contagious. You are suggesting that they go out and deliberately spread these diseases to other people. That’s not only sheer stupidity, it’s also totally heartless.

Tam-Tam is not researching any Morgellons pathogen. That’s an impossiblity. No such pathogen exists. He may have you fooled, but then, you’ve already shown us that you aren’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, either.

How’s Southcity doing? Has he started treating his schizophrenia yet? He and Tam-Tam are both suffering from paranoid delusions. It sounds like you may have the same problem. Also, you need to make sure your life insurance is up to date before you start buying Mexican pharmacheuticals.

Tall Cotton

P.S. Kiss my ass!

“CDC sends Morgellons investigators to California

Oct 1, 2006
By: Bill Gillette
Dermatology Times

Atlanta — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is sending a
team of investigators into California as a beginning step in its recently
announced decision to investigate Morgellons disease, a mysterious condition
heretofore diagnosed by most physicians as a psychotic disorder.
CDC spokesman Dan Rutz, M.P.H., tells Dermatology Times that at least three
investigators (to include an epidemiologist and mental-health and
infectious-disease specialists) — and more likely four, including a
dermatologist — were to arrive at the end of September and set up shop in
the Los Angeles area. According to the Morgellons Research Foundation,
Southern California — along with the San Francisco Bay region and parts of
Texas and Florida — is one of the “cluster areas” in which the disease has
been frequently reported.
In addition, the CDC has implemented a Morgellons information and voicemail
line at (404) 718-1199, which people who believe they may have the disease
can call for help…” (end of excerpt)

Please keep hammering the CDC and be sure to shake hands with everyone you meet. A cure will not be looked for until it is profitable. (For an excellent expose of the politics of Disease in the U.S. read the book or view the movie “And the Band Played On”) When the doubters become infected they will doubt no more so all of you sufferers get out there and spread the ‘joy’.

Love,

Lorri ( =

http://www.morgellons.org/kellett.html

It is, I think, significant that the distribution of this malady should, in the main, coincide with those areas where this superstition prevailed at that time the most, and fitting that the etiology of both should have resided in factors with which Sir Thomas Browne should, perhaps to a greater extent than any of his contemporaries, have been so unconcerned.

That last part should hold true (all these centuries later), for certain “professionals” today, but it isn’t.

Do all morgies know that the excerpt I supplied in comment #294 is from Sir Thomas Browne’s testimony at a three-day long witch trial that occurred at Bury St. Edmunds, England, from March 10-13, 1662?

http://members.tripod.com/mythofdesire/possession/id18.htm

Dr. Thomas Browne, a respected physician who lived relatively close by, testified next. He affirmed that witchcraft existed, specifically mentioning similar events that had occurred in Denmark. Despite mentioning possible medical explanations for the girls’ afflictions, namely “the mother,” Browne noted that the Devil could intensify symptoms. Though he believed that the girls were bewitched, he did not specifically state that Denny and Cullender had afflicted them. Browne testified:

That the Devil in such cases did work upon the bodies of men and women, upon a natural foundation, [that is] to stir up and excite such humors, super-abounding in their Bodies to a great excess, whereby he did in an extraordinary manner afflict them with such distempers as their bodies were most subject to, as particularly appeared in these children; for he conceived, that these swooning fits were natural, and nothing else but that they call the Mother, but only heightened to a great excess by the subtlety of the devil, cooperating with the malice of these which we term witches, at whose instance he doth these villanies.

Sir Thomas Browne, a resident of nearby Nottingham, was at the height of his career in 1662. The author of a half dozen major works, his eclectic interests ranged from his candid personal views on religion as a physician (Religio Medici, 1643), to natural history (Pseudodoxia Epidemica, 1646) to ancient funeral rites (Hydriotaphia, 1658). At times skeptical, anti-dogmatic, mystical, erudite, witty, moderate, and curious, Browne and his works had many admirers. Though he dabbled with some scientific experimentation (both he and Hale wrote about magnetism, for instance), Browne, like Hale, also firmly believed in Satan and witchcraft. He believed evil was a part of God’s universe, and to doubt the existence of witchcraft opened the door to atheism. Two decades before the trial, in probably his greatest work, Religio Medici (1643), Browne had written:

It is a riddle to me, how this story of oracles hath not wormed out of the world that doubtful conceit of spirits and witches; how so many learned heads should so far forget their metaphysics, and destroy the ladder and scale of creatures, as to question the existence of spirits. For my part, I have ever believed, and do now know, that there are witches: they that doubt of these, do not only deny them, but spirits; and are obliquely, and upon consequence a sort not of infidels, but atheists.

Really, all that was written on “morgellons disease”, back then, was that it was basically blackheads, comedomes, demodex mites, ingrown hairs, and abscesses. People who believe in it, now, attribute all this modern-day science-fiction, “Twilight Zone” stuff to it. Maybe such people don’t appreciate that hallucinations are real, to the person having them, and that a lot of things cause them. I mean, gee, like right down to Rhonda Casey on CNN, with that close-up of dry skin, when she points out what she says is a blue fiber and gets all excited. The background photo was magnified, already, and I magnified it even further, and all I see are dry skin creases.

Now what?