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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 421365" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I get the difference between Munchhausen's and hypochondria, but what do you call someone who exaggerates every last little symptom they ever have to get attention and sympathy? A plain ol' drama queen? I worked with a lady who did that all the time and she drove us all right up the wall! Apparently, in her family, if you were sick, you were petted and pampered and waited on hand and foot. But now she's older, divorced, kids are gone, and most of her family lives elsewhere. Basically, this person is healthy as a horse except for being way overweight and in the 25 years I've known her, she has never once had a serious illness! But with her, every sniffle is "going in to pneumonia", every headache is a "migraine", and she claims she's diabetic - she's not! And we've all heard her going through her list of symptoms with total strangers on the phone, no matter how embarassing! But it's not just with her! To hear her talk, every childbirth in her family in the last 50 years was a life-threatening experience, every baby born was dangerously premature (including the chubby 9-pounder she gave birth to seven months after her wedding)! She has at least twenty different doctors she goes to, for all different things and she has at least one, sometimes two doctors appointments a week. It's not "drug-seeking" like someone trying to get controlled addictive drugs, but she has taken so many different antibiotics (that she didn't need) over the years that now many do not work on her at all! She LOVES the attention she gets from the doctors! She'd come back to the office after an appointment, bragging to us all about how much they love her there, how she gets special attention, she's their favorite patient, etc., etc. It makes her really mad that we all basically ignore her, just say "uh-huh" and go back to what we were doing! But if you acknowlege her at all, she goes into hours of her own medical conditions and the medical conditions of her whole family going back generation after generation. We learned! If all else failed, she'd come out with a few LOUD, racking coughs that must have ripped the lining right off of her throat, obviously faked - she wasn't even sick, not even a sniffle! We just ignored her. And the poor woman who has to share her office, the one who, in the last five years, has <em>really</em> survived a heart attack, a ruptured appendix, and two bouts with breast cancer? She just sits there, shaking her head! Never a peep out of her!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 421365, member: 1883"] I get the difference between Munchhausen's and hypochondria, but what do you call someone who exaggerates every last little symptom they ever have to get attention and sympathy? A plain ol' drama queen? I worked with a lady who did that all the time and she drove us all right up the wall! Apparently, in her family, if you were sick, you were petted and pampered and waited on hand and foot. But now she's older, divorced, kids are gone, and most of her family lives elsewhere. Basically, this person is healthy as a horse except for being way overweight and in the 25 years I've known her, she has never once had a serious illness! But with her, every sniffle is "going in to pneumonia", every headache is a "migraine", and she claims she's diabetic - she's not! And we've all heard her going through her list of symptoms with total strangers on the phone, no matter how embarassing! But it's not just with her! To hear her talk, every childbirth in her family in the last 50 years was a life-threatening experience, every baby born was dangerously premature (including the chubby 9-pounder she gave birth to seven months after her wedding)! She has at least twenty different doctors she goes to, for all different things and she has at least one, sometimes two doctors appointments a week. It's not "drug-seeking" like someone trying to get controlled addictive drugs, but she has taken so many different antibiotics (that she didn't need) over the years that now many do not work on her at all! She LOVES the attention she gets from the doctors! She'd come back to the office after an appointment, bragging to us all about how much they love her there, how she gets special attention, she's their favorite patient, etc., etc. It makes her really mad that we all basically ignore her, just say "uh-huh" and go back to what we were doing! But if you acknowlege her at all, she goes into hours of her own medical conditions and the medical conditions of her whole family going back generation after generation. We learned! If all else failed, she'd come out with a few LOUD, racking coughs that must have ripped the lining right off of her throat, obviously faked - she wasn't even sick, not even a sniffle! We just ignored her. And the poor woman who has to share her office, the one who, in the last five years, has [I]really[/I] survived a heart attack, a ruptured appendix, and two bouts with breast cancer? She just sits there, shaking her head! Never a peep out of her! [/QUOTE]
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