Munchhausen

[Anonymous]

Let's take a poll. How many people take pictures of their sick kids in the ER or doctors office post them online? How many people take selfies in the doctors office or ER and post them to social media?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's take a poll. How many people take pictures of their sick kids in the ER or doctors office post them online? How many people take selfies in the doctors office or ER and post them to social media?

If you/your child are actually sick - and NOT sick because of something you did (eg ingest a poisonous substance) then it’s not Munchausen’s. Inappropriate and weird, probably. But not Munchausen’s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's take a poll. How many people take pictures of their sick kids in the ER or doctors office post them online? How many people take selfies in the doctors office or ER and post them to social media?

If you/your child are actually sick - and NOT sick because of something you did (eg ingest a poisonous substance) then it’s not Munchausen’s. Inappropriate and weird, probably. But not Munchausen’s.

Bingo, that's the thing. The illnesses are never resolved or have a diagnosis.

[Anonymous]

These things are not equivalent to either Munchausen Syndrome or Munchausean Syndrome by Proxy:

Dramatic
Attention-seeking
Sense of entitlement
Inappropriate boundaries
Poor sense of humor
Substance abuse
Intoxication
Mania
Coarseness and vulgarity
Stalking behavior
Being a psychic vampire
Lying
Cheating
Stealing
etc

[Anonymous]

I have a family member, a mother, who fancies herself an expert on "special needs" and has a background in special education. This person self diagnosed her own children with specific disorders and obtained medication and special services (IEP) for truly non existent conditions. Pulled strings and called in colleagues to advocate and lobby.

In the name of early intervention, began recording her kids doing x activity or showing behaviors she was convinced meant that they had x diagnosis.

One child she decided needed emergency psychiatric help and was placed in a pediatric psychiatric hospital for 24 hours. Constant drama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's take a poll. How many people take pictures of their sick kids in the ER or doctors office post them online? How many people take selfies in the doctors office or ER and post them to social media?

I have never done this but it isn’t munchausens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These things are not equivalent to either Munchausen Syndrome or Munchausean Syndrome by Proxy:

Dramatic
Attention-seeking
Sense of entitlement
Inappropriate boundaries
Poor sense of humor
Substance abuse
Intoxication
Mania
Coarseness and vulgarity
Stalking behavior
Being a psychic vampire
Lying
Cheating
Stealing
etc

Some of these are qualities of a Munchie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Everyone who knows this person suspects Munchhaysens and knows she is an addict- but her mom backs her up and no one will confront her. She fakes Migraines among other thing to get drugs. She even got a hysterectomy to get drugs. She has kids who have unsolved illnesses. She posts pics online of her and her kids in the ER to get attention, but everyone suspects Munchhausens. This has gone on for years and years. She keeps changing Doctors so I guess no one connects the dots. Hope someone gets a clue.

Wait - she is the OP of the fake migraines post??

It sure sounds like it.

Several days late but no, I’m the OP of the other fake migraine post, and my sickness is nowhere near this bad. I would NEVER subject my children to anything, and I draw the line at anything invasive (hysterectomy? Even I’m not that nuts).

And again, I’m not faking for any drugs. Just imitrex, which I don’t even take. I get it prescribed but I don’t fill it. Except for once to have pills on hand. No opioids or any other kind of pain pills.

[Anonymous]

OP here, some of her children supposedly have ADHD too so there is lots of access to Adderall.

She is a sweet person and a nurse and no one wants to think this about her, but her behavior screams Munchausen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These things are not equivalent to either Munchausen Syndrome or Munchausean Syndrome by Proxy:

Dramatic
Attention-seeking
Sense of entitlement
Inappropriate boundaries
Poor sense of humor
Substance abuse
Intoxication
Mania
Coarseness and vulgarity
Stalking behavior
Being a psychic vampire
Lying
Cheating
Stealing
etc

Some of these are qualities of a Munchie.

"Not equivalent to" -- see the bolded above.

You may be more likely to have some of these qualities if you have MS or MSBP, but that's also true for many other illnesses, such as bipolar disorder, histrionic or borderline personality disorder, or if you were raised in a circus.

Nonetheless, they are not equivalent,a nd they are not defining factors. Faking illness by certain means is.