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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP can you clarify what you think is going on?

1) Kid has a chronic illness.  Parent is handling it in a less than ideal way, perhaps because of their own anxiety, which is making the child's situation worse.  So, this might be overmedicating a child, causing a lot of side effects, or over-accommodating anxiety making it worse, or seeking so many specialists that absences from school create a new issue.

2) The kid has a chronic illness, and parent is intentionally doing things to exacerbate it, such as secretly feeding their allergic kid things they know the kid is allergic to, and then seeking sympathy and medical help for allergies with unknown triggers.

Those are two very different things, and those parent-child dyads need two very different kinds of support.  [/quote]

It's 1). But in addition to the parent not handling the main issue ideally, whenever there is any sign of improvement in the main illness, they then find new symptoms to focus on. For example, when the main issue is under control, but then the child's toe appears swollen one day, the parent tries to get a diagnosis for arthritis, takes kid to a bunch of new doctors and asks them to run tests unrelated to the original diagnoses. Also takes siblings to the E.R. for no clear reason when the main child is feeling better (and they always get turned away after long waits.)[/quote]

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