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<blockquote data-quote="dashcat" data-source="post: 421182" data-attributes="member: 9175"><p>I tend to think the Munchausen folks are shooting for sympathy along the more conventional avenues of cancer, etc. For some (although we know better!) mental illness holds a stimga, where cancer is a lightening strike ...even when heriditary.</p><p> </p><p>And, yeah, we're way too smart and experienced here. I think we'd catch on pretty fast.</p><p> </p><p>I believe my difficult child has some Munchausen tendancies....nothing I would call full blown, but the seeds are there. As far back as 9th grade, she would tell people she'd spent the night in ER with an un/diagnosis'd very scary issue, that she had a severe eating disorder and had to be hospitalized (she's normal to borderline overweight, can't believe anyone would buy her 500 calorie a day story!). She also has - on more than one occassion "killed off" a family member of friend in a victious car wreck. There have been pregnancies and misscarraiges as well.</p><p> </p><p>Since she operates so frequently on the internet (dating sites are big with her), I can only imagine this is getting worse.</p><p> </p><p>It worries me but, I can't do much except call her on it when she does it around me.</p><p> </p><p>I think most of us are so overwhelmed sometimes that the idea of even a smidge more drama is rather unappealing!</p><p>Dash</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dashcat, post: 421182, member: 9175"] I tend to think the Munchausen folks are shooting for sympathy along the more conventional avenues of cancer, etc. For some (although we know better!) mental illness holds a stimga, where cancer is a lightening strike ...even when heriditary. And, yeah, we're way too smart and experienced here. I think we'd catch on pretty fast. I believe my difficult child has some Munchausen tendancies....nothing I would call full blown, but the seeds are there. As far back as 9th grade, she would tell people she'd spent the night in ER with an un/diagnosis'd very scary issue, that she had a severe eating disorder and had to be hospitalized (she's normal to borderline overweight, can't believe anyone would buy her 500 calorie a day story!). She also has - on more than one occassion "killed off" a family member of friend in a victious car wreck. There have been pregnancies and misscarraiges as well. Since she operates so frequently on the internet (dating sites are big with her), I can only imagine this is getting worse. It worries me but, I can't do much except call her on it when she does it around me. I think most of us are so overwhelmed sometimes that the idea of even a smidge more drama is rather unappealing! Dash [/QUOTE]
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