Many people who have been told that they have "delusional parasitosis" and who have strange skin problems, as well as other internal problems, are now testin positive for lyme using the Bowen lab.

I believe that many people who have been diagnosed with various mental and physical illnesses might also have lyme, which can mimic just about everything, including bipolar, OCD, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder, depression, ADD and other physical illnesss.

I have been looking at psychiatric drugs and would like to let people know the following:

Lithium is now being used in Europe on Trypanosome cruzi, a protozoan parasite, where it works at a cellular and molecular level,

The benzodiazepines (Xanax is one) are being used as antimalarials.

The phenothiazines (Thorazine is one) were introduced in the 1930's to kill parasites in farm animals, as were the benzimidazoles (also for fungal infections in farm animals) and are being used today for fungal infections and parasites (see NIH -OES - NIAID).

Orap, Risperdal and many other "dop" drugs contain benzimidazole or one of its derivatives.

They also contain a piperidinyl - i am not a chemist but piperazine, the ingredient in Hartz dog wormer, is also listed under an article I found entitled "Antipsychotic drugs".

If you look at almost any psychiatric drug and trace back its chemical structure, you will be amazed.

I have written to many, many qualified people about this, and if someone tells you that when benzimidazole is used for worms, it kills them but when it is put in Orap (2H-benzimidazole), it does not - they are wrong or lying.

I have crushed Risperdal, made a paste of it with water and put on my skin lesions, which then change shape, pucker at edges, sometimes bleed and discharge orgaisms before turning black.

I took a low dose of Risperdal for several years (.25 mg) and I can assure you that, while I had all the internal symptoms and rashes, etc I did not have skin lesions until I had been off it for quite a while and they came back.

Many of these ingredients kill adult worms but not larva and vice-versa.

That is why they need more than one ingredient.

Although many qualified people, including a PhD whose speciality is benzimidazoles and parasites, have told me that I am right on this, DuPont Merck says they are not qualified to answer these questions and forwarded my letter to the NIH/NIMH, who said that they were very good questions and they would look into it and then said that they did not have time.

The CDC, when sent pics of my skin and a list of my symptoms, and questions about these drugs, said that they "do not handle skin" and referred me to the NIH/NIMH.

Mary Shepherd at the CDC told me that benzimidazole has no effect on organisms but this is not what scores of very qualified people have told me.

I have written hundreds of letters to local and national health agencies in this and other countries, asking for help for myself and the thousands of people with symtpoms identical to mine, and no one will get involved.

My local Health Department in Yakima County, WA says that when I wrote to their lyme expert, they all discussed my case, decided they could not help and so did not answer my letter.

When I called them and told them that I believe my water is transmitting an illness, they said that they do not test water and cannot recommend anyone who can; they have no doctor there and cannot recommend one; I need an entomologist to identify worms but they cannot recommend one; there is nothing they can do for me - they are only there to monitor illness and not do anything about it!

When my brother-in-law, several years ago, came home from fishing with ticks and tiny red bites on him, he suddenly became terribly ill with psychological symptoms including hallucinations and internal symptoms including a very high fever - he was in the hospital and amost died.

The Yakima Health Department, then, rushed in, examined the ticks, and finally decided that he had gotten this illness from petting a camel someplace.

He did recover.

But this Health Department now cannot do anything for me.

A local feedlot, under the approval of the Dept. of Ag, recently poisoned starlings with DRC 1339 (a cytotoxin and nephrotoxin that has been shown to aggravate heart disease, diabetes, and vitamin and hormone synthesis in people and to kill protected non-targeted birds) - I had over five hundred dead and dying starlings on my property. bleeding from mouth and rectum as they died.

A local paper did a story on this and the Health Dept. and Dept. of Ag people said that the poison did not cause the bleeding in five hundred birds (nor in some of my pets who exhibited symptoms several hours after the birds appeared here) but that all the birds must have been stepped on.

I received a list of at least fifteen diseases that can be tranferred from birds to people (there are many more - there list was from 1979) but in the story, they said they were not aware of any illnesses that birds can give people and there was nothing to worry about.

This is our tax dollars at work.

The paper will now not print my response to the lies told by these men.

I have numerous symptoms of lyme, which I believe has allowed in the other organisms found in my stool (living Mermithid worms and organisms resembling slugs) and in my skin (resembles an Amphipod without legs) and I cannot find a doctor who will authorize a test or even do a CBC blood test.

My current doctor drew blood for a lyme test kit I got but made me send it in; while telling me that he was waiting for the results, he called the lab and said that he had drawn the blood but would not sign and authorize the test, so they discarded the blood. He will not even do a CBC, although for eight years he insisted on one yearly for my yearly physical - now he says these only look for leukemia and I do not need one.

My local EPA says that they can do nothing for me.

My Attorney General directed me to the EPA.

The parasitologist at the WSU extension eighteen miles from me will not answer my calls or emails since I sent him pics of my skin and of the organism from my skin.

If anyone know of a doc around Sunnyside, WA with the guts and integrity to test me for lyme, please let me know.

For those of you who do not know, Ken Cowles, an Associate Producer for a national news show, would like to hear from people who cannot get treatment for strange illnesses at: kencowles@earthlink.net