Picture being haunted by a phantom. Tormented by something you can’t see. Every so often you feel an itch, a twitch, a warm sensation or a gesture. Sometimes you’re haunted by debilitating pain in this familiar part of your body that is gone. Now imagine a different kind of torment from something actually attached to your body. It haunts your waking hours because you perceive it as foreign. It’s always there, wherever you go, torturing you with its presence.
Rather than a horror film premise, these are actual medical conditions described centuries ago, and continuing today. Researchers are still unraveling what is actually happening in the body and mind.
