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

[Hekate]

49. I hope she gets the care she needs in a nonjudgmental compassionate atmosphere, unlike DU...

And may she find peace and serenity waiting for her when she gets back home. Joni Mitchell is a musical treasure, and deserves that much.

Rather than people on a discussion board pretending to be doctors Try compassion for her obvious illness and pain. She has had a lifetime of serious, scientifically verifiable, named illnesses -- yet has been a productive singer-songwriter throughout her life as well.

Instead of labeling her ongoing crisis as purely psychosomatic, ask yourselves how much her system may have been weakened by previous illnesses, catching up to her as she has aged. I don't have to "believe in Morgollens" to understand that she is ill and that doctors don't know why.

Incidentally, any number of us on DU suffer from illnesses once deemed psychosomatic, such as fibromyalgia. Since some of those chronic conditions mostly strike women, it's a surprisingly easy diagnosis for the medical community to make and keep insisting on for decades if not centuries -- until science finally validates what the sufferers have experienced.