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Geophyrd
02-Jul-2008, 01:34 PM
Next time you get an itch...think about it before you scratch (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all).
SymphonicX
02-Jul-2008, 01:53 PM
Next time you get an itch...think about it before you scratch (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all).

Something similar happened to my dad once. He was convinced for years that he had "aliens" in his head, making him itch. He took a modelling knife to his scalp and would gouge out bits of skin. The docs couldn't do anything about it, eventually it died down of it's own accord. It was made seeing him sitting on a chair screaming that there was an alien on his arm, (flying saucers he used to call them) when in reality it was just a fleck of cotton from his clothes...

my dad's autistic though, and was under severe stress for years....
Geophyrd
02-Jul-2008, 04:44 PM
Thanks...just as disturbing an image as the story...
Legion2213
02-Jul-2008, 04:59 PM
Something similar happened to my dad once. He was convinced for years that he had "aliens" in his head, making him itch. He took a modelling knife to his scalp and would gouge out bits of skin. The docs couldn't do anything about it, eventually it died down of it's own accord. It was made seeing him sitting on a chair screaming that there was an alien on his arm, (flying saucers he used to call them) when in reality it was just a fleck of cotton from his clothes...

my dad's autistic though, and was under severe stress for years....

Jesus, that must have been horrible for you, him and your family. :(
bassman
02-Jul-2008, 05:02 PM
Reading that article made me itch.....
SymphonicX
02-Jul-2008, 05:43 PM
Jesus, that must have been horrible for you, him and your family. :(

It was certainly very odd seeing a grown man sit there with a sharpie and blood running down the side of his head....all completely psychological though. Man he went off on one about it, it really tormented him. I think it was a by-product of his alcohol abuse and the situation with the family at the time. Things were getting so ****ed up back then I had to move out, I think that was the shock for them both, they cleaned their act up a few years later and can now be referred to as "family" and it actually has some modicum of reality to it.

Hey ho.
dracenstein
02-Jul-2008, 07:32 PM
Did M recover?

The article didn't say whether the mirror trick thing worked or not.