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Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome, also called Factitious Disorder by Proxy, is a psychological disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior in which someone, usually a mother, induces physical ailments upon another person, usually her child (“Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome,” n.d., p. 1). The mother attempts to gain attention and recognition for herself by putting on the public façade of dedicated and loving mother. However, when alone with her child she will subject them to abuse, both physical and emotional, as she tries to deliberately make them sick. The website “Munchausen by Proxy Survivors Network,” offers an extended definition for the disorder:
The child is a victim of maltreatment in which an adult falsifies physical and/or physiological signs and/or symptoms in the child causing this child to be regarded as ill or impaired. The perpetrator who is usually a parent or caregiver intentionally falsifies history, signs, or symptoms in the child to meet their own self-serving psychological needs. Other member in the family may support and participate in the deception (n.d., p. 1).
http://allpsych.com/journal/munchausen.html
MacCruiskeen wrote:There is no prediction I would more gladly have been wrong about, WR, but there are few predictions I was more certain of.
But christ yes, no joy.
I hope Jani will live to write her own book and stay sane (she is and obviously always has been sane, so far) long enough to make it a good one, i.e., a truthful one.
Jerky wrote:And how unfortunate for young January that her monstrous parents appear unwilling to confess to their obviously countless crimes and abuses
DrEvil wrote:MacCruiskeen wrote:There is no prediction I would more gladly have been wrong about, WR, but there are few predictions I was more certain of.
But christ yes, no joy.
I hope Jani will live to write her own book and stay sane (she is and obviously always has been sane, so far) long enough to make it a good one, i.e., a truthful one.
The nerve of some people! Here we have someone who teaches writing for a living writing a book
trying to use this opportunity to support his family! How dare he!?
oh, and remind to tell my schizophrenic friend that he wasn't actually sick when he tried torching the gas station or when he was communicating with the headlights of other cars. It was all just in his head
MacCruiskeen wrote:DrEvil wrote:MacCruiskeen wrote:There is no prediction I would more gladly have been wrong about, WR, but there are few predictions I was more certain of.
But christ yes, no joy.
I hope Jani will live to write her own book and stay sane (she is and obviously always has been sane, so far) long enough to make it a good one, i.e., a truthful one.
The nerve of some people! Here we have someone who teaches writing for a living writing a book
I know, incredible, isn't it? And he gets away with it too. It's like a dalek offering elocution lessons and actually finding people who'll pay. There's a sucker born every minute.trying to use this opportunity to support his family! How dare he!?
Beating and emotionally abusing your child, pressing for an absurd diagnosis, stuffing her full of drugs, boasting about it in a blog and then glorifying your own heroic "struggle" [sic] in a book while stigmatizing that child publicly for life is not the only conceivable way of supporting one's family. Is it?oh, and remind to tell my schizophrenic friend that he wasn't actually sick when he tried torching the gas station or when he was communicating with the headlights of other cars. It was all just in his head
Why should I remind you to do such a silly thing? Your friend clearly has precisely nothing in common with the child January Schofield. And of course you would know that if you had actually bothered to read her father's blog. (Not an easy task, I admit, but if I managed it* so can you.)
* Every damn word of it, god help me. It was a harrowing experience. But maybe I should follow Mr. Schofield's pathbreaking example and write a book about it. Like him, I could call it "My Struggle".
Does anyone here have Oprah's phone number?
Jani was barely registering my presence, I felt desperate and wanted to teach her, to try and engage her. I could feel her slipping away.
Col. Quisp wrote:People say all kinds of things on FB. Doesn't mean he will actually donate money to others. Just another way of making himself look good.
Jerky wrote:How blessed we are to have so many incredibly insightful, perceptive and well-informed pediatric psychiatrists and psychologists participating here at this message board, willing to dole out their expert opinions free of charge.
And how unfortunate for young January that her monstrous parents appear unwilling to confess to their obviously countless crimes and abuses made manifest in the blazing glow of the accumulated wisdom dispensed across these digital pages like so many glowing torches in the dark, dark night.
MT
MacCruiskeen wrote:Oh yes, and the Department of Child and Family Services have been in touch with him after visiting his website. (For the record: It wasn't me who put them onto him, but I'm glad somebody did.)
Plutonia wrote:Has anyone suggested Munchausen by Proxy yet?Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome, also called Factitious Disorder by Proxy, is a psychological disorder characterized by a pattern of behavior in which someone, usually a mother, induces physical ailments upon another person, usually her child (“Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome,” n.d., p. 1). The mother attempts to gain attention and recognition for herself by putting on the public façade of dedicated and loving mother. However, when alone with her child she will subject them to abuse, both physical and emotional, as she tries to deliberately make them sick. The website “Munchausen by Proxy Survivors Network,” offers an extended definition for the disorder:
The child is a victim of maltreatment in which an adult falsifies physical and/or physiological signs and/or symptoms in the child causing this child to be regarded as ill or impaired. The perpetrator who is usually a parent or caregiver intentionally falsifies history, signs, or symptoms in the child to meet their own self-serving psychological needs. Other member in the family may support and participate in the deception (n.d., p. 1).
http://allpsych.com/journal/munchausen.html
psynapz wrote:Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome is unbearably resembled in this story.
Also, she's a genius, so at her age, she makes free associations with stunning creativity as it is. But then one day she learned that she's named after a month that happens every year and is a proper noun which everyone in the world uses all the time to describe a recurring period of time and has absolutely fuck-all to do with her. This had to be a rude introduction to not being the center of the universe.
So I can't help but notice these animal names are crossing associative boundaries in a way that sort of gives the finger to the structures and boundaries around her, and seems to be a nod to the mindfuck that which is being named after a month, where months are associated with numbers...
i'm sure lots of retardedly-named people lead mentally-balanced lives, but then on top of that, Daddy beats her into psychosis and then reinforces it with trauma-based mind control tactics such as the shark story (which wasn't the only time he's admitted to putting fucked up ideas in her head).
Hell yes 400 is her father. But any sufficiently neuro-atypical kid is going to have a rich inner world, possibly even giving it a name and filling it with personal archetypal icons of relevance.
What's that web site of the Aspie which documents a detailed computer-like game he's had inside his head his whole life?
I can't handle social work. This shit would make ME want to jump out a window just hearing about it.
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DrEvil wrote:MacCruiskeen wrote:Oh yes, and the Department of Child and Family Services have been in touch with him after visiting his website. (For the record: It wasn't me who put them onto him, but I'm glad somebody did.)
I just realized why this thread pisses me off. If you're all so absolutely sure that she is being abused, then why the Hell didn't you call Child Services?
psynapz wrote:If you had read the whole thread, you'd see Mac and c2w imploring anyone in the LA area who knows anything about the relevant social services there to do something, and Mac noting subsequently that at least three RIers had PMed him to discuss doing exactly that. Who knows whether they did, all we know is that it had little to no practical effect.
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