There is a condition that can cause people to feel bugs crawling beneath their skin so acutely that they will use tweezers to pluck them from their eyeballs. It's a terrible disorder made worse by medicine's insistence it is all in sufferers' heads.
In this fascinating and mysterious Stuff You Should Know episode, Josh and Chuck dive into Morgellons disease, a controversial condition first described in 2002 that has the medical establishment completely divided. Sufferers report feeling like bugs are crawling under their skin, mysterious colored fibers emerging from sores, and intense itching sensations, but doctors largely dismiss it as delusional parasitosis - essentially telling patients it's all in their heads. The hosts explore the bizarre research findings, including fibers that supposedly can't be identified by the FBI database, the CDC's controversial study conclusions, and why this strange ailment has created such a heated battle between patients desperately seeking help and a medical community that refuses to take them seriously.
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