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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
Gilbert Times
By John Dickerson
Doctors say these Valley residents only imagine the bugs crawling under their skin. But thousands of these “crazies” have banned together and have health officials taking a closer look.
Sarah Brewer says hair-like creatures are crawling in and out of her skin, and she has the lesions to prove it. After months locked in an Arizona mental facility, Brewer pretended to be rid of the condition for long enough to be let out.
Brewer, 39, is one of thousands in the U.S., predominantly in Arizona, Southern California and Texas, who have linked up on a handful of Web sites for seemingly-sane folks who’ve been diagnosed with Delusions of Parasites (DOP). These working-class, otherwise normal victims say the creeping invaders are as real as the skin on their bones. Now, university researchers and a handful of scientists agree.
In a mysterious search that stretches from mental homes to the administrative offices of the Center for Disease Control, the line between the physically tortured and the mentally insane may be as thin as an unidentified parasite, or an imaginative group of intelligent psychos.
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