Q: Mental Conditions Question
asked by:
DoctorQuestion
on September 15th, 2009
Part 2 Munchause/Facticious Disorder
This person immediately disclosed she had been a victim of incest as a child, tried to commit suicide 3 times as a child/adolescent and had also been in an abusive marriage. She then went on to say she had a brain tumor and was unable to work and also was a single parent of a child with rare autoimmune diseases. So once again an unbelievable story. After a few months she then went on to say her daughter was diagnosed with the rarest form of leukemia and is terminal. This time instead of telling this to only strangers on an internet forum, she had joined FaceBook and is telling her real family and friends. Well,I have once again discovered that her daughters diagnosis is at a minimal a gross exaggeration, if not completely facticious!!
At this point I am concerned for her daughters health and whether or not she is either fooling doctors or maybe even inducing the condition. At a minimum she has made her teenage daughter completely dependent on he
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