Special Education or Special Medication?: Re: Let me see . . .

» joyfulplace - Re: Let me see . . .

In response to message posted by biogardener:

Hi Bio
This sounds a little different. People with Munchausen or Munchausen by proxy may actually hurt themselves or the child to give credence to the claim that something is wrong. They are persistently craving attention and the only way they can figure to get it is if they are *ill*. Then the doctor will pay attention to them. Parents have been known to smother their own children ,for example. They get attention for themselves through someone else's (their child) supposed illness. So theyare in docotr's office or hospitals way too frequently.
In the TV show I saw, they actually operated on a baby because the mother kept bringing her in saying she was having problems breathing. They finally caught her on hidden camera smothering the baby.(granted this is only TV!)
This man sounds like he has a different type of a pesonality disorder. He seeems to have problems with his perception of people and with interacting with them. I won't venture a guess (not even an educated one) since I don't know enough of the situation and I am not a clinical psychologist.

Hope this helps
Marilyn

-- posted by joyfulplace