Life with a mother with severe, untreated Munchausen syndrome

by munchausen_y1qjhr | Mar 13, 2020 | Personal Narrative

My mother has been sick since before I was born, not, however, in the way she has always desired to be sick. Before her children came along, her cat had seizures. Then my older sister had seizures and my mother convinced the pediatrician to write an anti-seizure...

A podcast featuring an amazing father who fought for his son after finding that the child was a medical child abuse victim

by munchausen_y1qjhr | Feb 17, 2020 | Personal Narrative

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Advice for patients with factitious disorder who are seeking change.

by munchausen_y1qjhr | Jun 21, 2019 | Personal Narrative

Though I always knew that I had a factitious disorder–at least on some level–it was difficult to admit to it on a practical level. I can go about discussing my childhood, which was not a happy one, but I don’t care to relive it. One of the reasons I found...

A mixture of Munchausen syndrome and malingering: factitious AIDS

by munchausen_y1qjhr | Apr 26, 2019 | Personal Narrative

This case is mostly culled from newspaper accounts and is not truly a “personal” narrative. In 2008, Cassey Jo Weierbach was found guilty of welfare fraud, forgery, and records tampering. Pennsylvania state prosecutors accused Cassey of pretending to have AIDS in...

Munchausen syndrome and a cancer hoax

by munchausen_y1qjhr | Apr 19, 2019 | Personal Narrative

I am convinced that my sister Bernadette is pretending to have terminal cancer. I am angry, upset, and terrified right now. This all started in January, when Bernadette called to tell me that a small tumor had been found on her ovary during a routine scan. She...