> But coming from a fibromyalgia household where the women in my family were led to believe their illness was imaginary ("female hysteria") for decades, some of

> But coming from a fibromyalgia household where the women in my family were led to believe their illness was imaginary ("female hysteria") for decades, some of them wasting years on powerful antipsychotic and antidepressant medications, I am very wary of dismissing self-reported symptoms as psychosomatic. I'm glad they are getting help. (Also good job with the HVAC and the building; an unprovably unpleasant environment can mess with people's lives) But it's worth noting as others have that Morgellons is based on a specific claim (strange microscopic growths out of the skin) that is testable. The things that sufferers/believers think are their disease turn out to be cellulose in nature. In other words, cotton microfibres.