When I can stop laughing enough to type, I'll get back to you.

Okay, that's better.

Oh wait, not done yet!

Wow, this is hard to type with a straight face.

Now I don't know the whole Morgellons story, but I do know that if *I* were trying to find three people who I was going to parade in front of the camera as morgollons patients who don't have "delusional parasitosis" then I wouldn't have chosen the three female, obviously advanced, end-of-the-line, meth junkies as my poster children.

Now I think Neverfly and a couple of others here will tell you that yes you can tell an advanced meth freak just by looking at them. It's that greasy hair, bad skin, rotting teeth trifecta that gives it away every time. (unless of course morgollons also causes you to not bathe, not eat right so your skin goes bad from B & C deficiencies and is toxic to your teeth as well)

Good lord. Two different junkies showing you the sores on their legs. You know the kind. Not the track marks, but the sores from skin popping and bad hygiene. And oh yeah, meth is famous for causing formication (crawling sensations) in its users, along with cocaine, big time. That's one reason the sensation is called "coke bugs".

Hmmm, heavy meth and coke use in the Bay Area.

Morgellons hot spot in the same place.

Don't have to be Col. Mustard to get a clue here.

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Even before it gets that bad, you can tell when you're in the same room with a chronic user by the smell. Not "B.O.", but what we used to call "speed sweats"!

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Well, I'm no Col. Mustard, but I do understand the point you are trying to make, about how Morgellons Symptoms and Meth Use are striking similiar.

Even so, I don't find any humor in human suffering, unless it's fictional (Ex: The Simpsons).

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Cookie, fair enough statement. Though I was mainly laughing about the supposedly responsible adults who were fielding this masterwork of photo journalism. Talk about not supporting your own story!

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What story?

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You apparently know more than I do. Who are what are Morgellons?

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What.

See topic Morgellons.

Or, distilled, Wikipedia: Morgellons.

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Thanks. And yuck.

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"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

I have to admit I would laugh too, if they couldn't recognize the symptoms of being a crackhead.

Here locally, we call it the Rundberg Shuffle. (Lotta dealings and such on that street.)

Could it be that meth addiction induces delusional parasitosis in some? "Coke bugs" was mentioned in the OP, so it's not too far-fetched to think that other potent "recreational" substances could cause similar symptoms.

Yet another reason to keep away from drugs, I guess.

- Maha "nasty side effects: my anti-drug" Vailo

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Wikipedia: Amphetamine psychosis:

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not even self inflicted human suffering?

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I remember once reading a message board for Morgellon's sufferers. It was there I decided that it probably didn't exist. It was mainly what they were touting as evidence. "I took my socks off last night, and there were little fiber balls between my toes! Were they knitting down there?"

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