Morgellons

I read an article in the paper the other day about a disorder called Morgellons and it just blew me away. My son and I had many of the same symptoms, though nothing as extreme. The part I found especially interesting was that people with the disorder all had weird fibers growing out of lesions on their bodies, yet most of them were being diagnosed with "delusional parasitis (DP)". It's the doctor's that are delusional in this case, and probably most others cases of DP, too. The doctors are at a loss to explain or treat the patients symptoms so they take a "the patient must be crazy approach". It does make me wonder about the logic skills of the medical profession as a whole. How can lesions in thousands of people, all complaining of the same symptoms, all with strange fibers growing out of their bodies, possibly attributed to delusion?

I have medical text books from the early 1900s and medical textbooks from recent times and there is very little overlap. Most of the diseases we have identified today did not have names or diagnostic criteria in the early 1900s. What are the odds that there will be many more diseases and infections in medical texts of a hundred years from now? Are all of the people who have disorders that are not in the current medical texts being diagnosed today as delusional? I worry that might be true. In the old medical books many disorders were attributed to "female hysteria"--conditons that would more likely be diagnosed as epilepsy today.