On E medicine morgellons is classified under “Delusions of parasitosis”
When they don’t know what it its, they will more often than not decide it’s psychological and prescribe the latest expensive “miracle” drug that usually only makes a person feel worse.
Docs can be very narrow minded. I had a hernia and the doc refused to believe it because, as he said, “Women just don’t get hernias.”
He believed me after he cut me open and repaired it.
I don’t have much faith in doctors. To me, the only thing most of them are good for is writing a prescription so you can get your antibiotics or whatever you need legally.
medicine is a scientific discipline. In order to have a "disease" you need to have a deviation or interruption of the normal function or structure of the body that has characteristic symptoms and signs.
In other words measurable data to show the "malfunction" needs to be present. Also the malfunction has to be related to the findings of the causative agent.
Chronic fatigue may in fact exist. But the causative agents that can be replicated in blinded studies don't exist. Anecdotal evidence is one thing but the science has to back it up.
An example is if you have a patient that drinks water and beer, whiskey and water, tequila and water, scotch and water and all patients get drunk... it must be the water causing it. Unless you do the studies to have patients drink water alone and with other compounds you'll never understand that the alcohol in the fluids causes the drunkenness.
A lot of feel good, politically correct stuff is creeping into medicine, so don't worry. Chronic Fatigue will get to be a disease that qualifies for SSI disability just like ADHD, alcoholism, heroin addiction and chronic back pain.