It’s too bad that the brain doesn’t have the capability to feel itself. Imagine the fun of having a little buddy wiggling through your thoughts.
Maybe it’d even tickle :3
A past team member of mine had a client who kept telling providers that she “has worms in my brain.” Multiple providers discounted the medical relevance of this individual’s claims as delusions due to her schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and her low level of function.
My team member fought the providers like hell to get her an fMRI. Well the fMRI showed her brain was riddled with at that point inoperable tumors, and she died not long afterwards.
I’d heard other accounts of similar stories, but that was the first real-world example I had. If I had a client telling me there were ants in his belly, I’m not going to believe that’s accurate, but I made damn sure we addressed it with providers.
People can describe physical symptoms in seemingly bizarre ways. Even if the exact scenario they are describing is clearly false, it doesn’t mean they aren’t experiencing very real physical symptoms.
Reminds me of an episode of one of those medical shows where a nonverbal autistic kid keeps trying to tell everyone he’s got worms in his eyes but he can only tell them by drawing the worms so it just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines on paper.
Or shutter island when DiCaprio is talking about his dead wife saying she had a bug in her brain before going crazy and killing their kids.
Yeah, that was definitely House, I remember the scene where he shown the flashlight into the poor kid’s eye and you see the worms swimming inside the boy’s (fortunately intact) eyeball and ewwwwww… That said, both in-story and IRL it’s easily treatable, with special antibiotics iirc.
Monsters Inside Me is aptly chosen as titles go, a docuseries named like a horror novel because botflies, hookworms and, yes, actual brain-eating amoebas and bacteria, are fucking terrifying.
It’s too bad that the brain doesn’t have the capability to feel itself. Imagine the fun of having a little buddy wiggling through your thoughts.
Maybe it’d even tickle :3
A past team member of mine had a client who kept telling providers that she “has worms in my brain.” Multiple providers discounted the medical relevance of this individual’s claims as delusions due to her schizophrenia-spectrum disorder and her low level of function.
My team member fought the providers like hell to get her an fMRI. Well the fMRI showed her brain was riddled with at that point inoperable tumors, and she died not long afterwards.
I’d heard other accounts of similar stories, but that was the first real-world example I had. If I had a client telling me there were ants in his belly, I’m not going to believe that’s accurate, but I made damn sure we addressed it with providers.
People can describe physical symptoms in seemingly bizarre ways. Even if the exact scenario they are describing is clearly false, it doesn’t mean they aren’t experiencing very real physical symptoms.
Reminds me of an episode of one of those medical shows where a nonverbal autistic kid keeps trying to tell everyone he’s got worms in his eyes but he can only tell them by drawing the worms so it just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines on paper.
Or shutter island when DiCaprio is talking about his dead wife saying she had a bug in her brain before going crazy and killing their kids.
I remember that! I’m pretty sure that was an episode of House.
Yeah, that was definitely House, I remember the scene where he shown the flashlight into the poor kid’s eye and you see the worms swimming inside the boy’s (fortunately intact) eyeball and ewwwwww… That said, both in-story and IRL it’s easily treatable, with special antibiotics iirc.
Monsters Inside Me is aptly chosen as titles go, a docuseries named like a horror novel because botflies, hookworms and, yes, actual brain-eating amoebas and bacteria, are fucking terrifying.
Oh god you just unlocked ptsd I didn’t even know I had
I hate you 😵💫
“I ate you”
Damn this a bad memory
Chomp :)
Hey thanks buddy have some thought juice to go along with that
Therapy-worm just munching away on all your trauma.
I, for one, welcome our parasitic overlords!
I felt that just by reading it, thank you very much.
Then they’d have to use anesthesia when doing brain surgery