Wow, do you think your mom had some kind of muchausen by proxy syndrome? Glad you were able to escape that mindset.
Not in the cruel way, like making your kid sick by putting feces in the IV, which i have read after someone here told me about the sickness.
i dont know
i think those people do it for the attention.
if doing it to feel needed is also a reason ALONE and on its own, then she had it.