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Münchausen syndrome is a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves. It is also sometimes known as hospital addiction syndrome, thick chart syndrome, or hospital hopper syndrome. True Münchausen syndrome fits within the subclass of factitious disorder with predominantly physical signs and symptoms, but they also have a history of recurrent hospitalization, travelling, and dramatic, untrue, and extremely improbable tales of their past experiences.[1] There is discussion to reclassify them as somatoform disorders in the DSM-5 as it is unclear whether or not people are conscious of drawing attention to themselves.[2] In the current iteration, the term “somatoform disorder” (as used in the DSM-IV-TR and other literature) is no longer in use; that particular section of the DSM-V has been renamed “Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders”. Officially, Münchausen syndrome has been renamed “Factitious Disorder”, with specificity either as “Imposed on Self” or “Imposed on Another” (formerly “by Proxy”).
OMG its describing Nancy Piglosi!
I’m not real sure I understand your sig line. Care to expand?
Heh, you got the Munchausen syndrome right.....I got a story that....well anyway...
I wrote a book about it! Wrote it in 1998 but had to give up all rights to it by my daughter or she would never allow me to see my granddaughter again. So she told me.
So I gave up all rights, burned all my copies of the book, such was my terror. Daughter always bribes me by granddaughter thread, don’t think she’d ever do it.
So I check into Amazon, the book was copyrighted in 2005 and IT’S SELLING!
The book is fiction, titled “Attention, Please”, it’s fiction but there are characters in it from my own life, not uncommon for writers. My publisher evidently kept the rights to my book and put it on Amazon!
Heh. Well I meant well.
Look it up....the plot is about a woman who catches a presidential candidate, looking like about to win, molesting a child.
She tries to get someone’s attention and no one will do a thing about it.
So she does something desperate.
I sat this weekend and read that entire book and first, IT’S A GREAT BOOK!
1998....I wrote in 1998, when my daughter was 21. Now she’s 37 and it’s the same old, same old.
Yeah, she made me destroy the book (I told her I did but I didn’t).
It’s a good book, seriously.
Anyway, the story is bizarre. In fact, the protagonist writing the book states plainly that she wrote it just to tell the story of her daughter.
Ain’t making this up.
I might have to write another book. And this time I will make sure daughter gets a copy.
Too funny. Thanks for the laugh so early.