Iconic singer Joni Mitchell was diagnosed with Morgellons. ... she's awake and in good spirts

[Dont call me Shirley]

24. Whatever! Doctors have been telling women this for millennia, to demean and degrade women.

When I first got sick with a terrible and painful undiagnosed case of pericarditis from undiagnosed Systemic Lupus, that's all I heard from doctors, "you need a psychiatrist because you have hypochondria" or this little gem "you just want heavy narcotics". This went on for 17 years. It was a nightmare for me. Finally, I got the correct PHYSICAL, not a mental, diagnosis. At that point I almost died from Lupus.

Many doctors are just too incompetent in their diagnostic abilities to accurately diagnose. Then their giant god-egos get bruised because they are too mentally lazy to figure it out.

Medical diagnostic companies are too consumed with creating profit rather than creating new tests which can actually diagnose diseases.

Obviously you have never been seriously ill from a chronic disease, or you would understand.