Community Munchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention

[Kate Farms Shill]

With the horror of Animal Control and the never-ending insanity over in the Stinkditch, @Kate Farms Shill posts are like a breath of fresh air.
Honestly, you're such a funny and entertaining writer, as well as an amazing researcher.
Are you sure you're not secretly JK?

JK Rowling actually did write about ridiculous social media munchies in one of her recent books and it led to some jokes that I was secretly JK Rowling (or that she's secretly a fan of my work). I've actually never read any of her books or seen the HP movies because the rock I live under is extremely heavy.

I do know if I had Rowling money I'd have sent a silly amount to Slobbermutt back the first time Elliot Fong-Jones decided to take down my favorite place on the Internet.

 

[ticktacktoe]

Does anyone have any information if Paige is still around or did she go underground?

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Does anyone have any information if Paige is still around or did she go underground?

Been asked a bunch of times recently which is why you're getting the stickers. She quit social media a while back after a bunch of people she knew IRL exposed her and she got posted to r/Illnessfakers. Her friend says she lives in an apartment and is still "sick" but nowhere near as attention-seeking.

Fun fact now that she's dormant: I anonymously submitted the Illnessfakers timeline and then laughed really hard at the comments on it. It was about evenly split between people who either immediately realized or heavily suspected it was me, people who thought the writer cribbed it from me, and people who said there was no way that I could possibly clean up my language and behave that well. Whoops turns out I wasn't lying about being a gainfully employed adult who researches and writes reports for a living.

 

[roblox gay nazi sex club]

Further to this, they will buy you a car, see here. I'm not sure how they decide on the mobility component, cos the guy I knew who got one could walk and cycle just fine.

You can also get PIP if you're working, I found this out from a guy who works with benefit claimants who has cerebral palsy. He didn't know he was eligible til he found out from one of his claimants.

Absolutely loving Jessica, She really can't put in a single ounce of effort to fake sick. Looking forward to part 3.

Depends on his disability, if it affects his ability /to/ walk and cycle etc at times. I believe it's also a distance thing iirc.

You can only get PIP if you work 16 hours or less a week. Any more than that needs to be reported since its wrangling the system. (And they have to know where you work too if i remember right. Something with a form. Been years @ this point so no powerlevel.)

 

[Hedgehog]

Depends on his disability, if it affects his ability /to/ walk and cycle etc at times. I believe it's also a distance thing iirc.

You can only get PIP if you work 16 hours or less a week. Any more than that needs to be reported since its wrangling the system. (And they have to know where you work too if i remember right. Something with a form. Been years @ this point so no powerlevel.)

You mean ESA, PIP is non means tested and available to anyone whose disability affects them enough.

 

[FUPA problems]

Someone could probably track the progression of this, in a way they wouldn't be allowed to for the trans social media people.

The fact that you can blog about hating Autism Speaks on tumblr means that you're not their target demographic. It's like someone with stage 1 CKD starting a movement to outlaw dialysis, because it's a tool of medical oppression leveled at people with stage 5 CKD.

I know this is a delayed response; I've been catching up on this forum at work and have been super backlogged. I am not the biggest fan of Autism Speaks as a parent of a kid with autism, only because they spend so much of the money they receive on researching things like the gene that determines autism so that they can "eradicate autism."

Autism is such a spectrum that there are people with autism who feel attacked by that; they feel as if Autism Speaks would rather them be dead than alive. While my son is high-functioning, he does have a lot of issues that are stressful for us, but he does have so many great qualities that I wouldn't trade him for the world. I also have friends who have kids who aren't as high-functioning and feel the same as I do about their child; even if it is a lot of work, they wouldn't trade having a "non-autistic" kid instead.

That money could be used to help in so many better ways, but that is my opinion. Use it to give school districts an upper hand and more resources to help kids with autism anywhere on the spectrum... Donate money to private therapy companies so kids from low-income families can get free therapy. I digress...

 

[Aunt Carol]

I am not the biggest fan of Autism Speaks as a parent of a kid with autism, only because they spend so much of the money they receive on researching things like the gene that determines autism so that they can "eradicate autism." [...]
That money could be used to help in so many better ways, but that is my opinion. Use it to give school districts an upper hand and more resources to help kids with autism anywhere on the spectrum... Donate money to private therapy companies so kids from low-income families can get free therapy. I digress...

Having done almost no research into it, Autism Speaks always sounded like an organization in the Susan G Komen vein: "awareness" i.e. a clothing and accessories brand with a lot of lawyers.

Maybe that's how you tell if a nonprofit organization is truly being run by/for the people it says it's for. Less about "cures" and "awareness," more about helping in quantifiable, quotidian, probably not very photogenic ways.

 

[TheBigZee]

Funding basic research is one of the highest impact activities a national/international society can engage in. Virtually no one else is going to be able to fund multi-million dollar grants if the government wont.

 

[Fungible penis]

'Hysteria' seems like a valid assessment.

 

[Kufungisisa]

'Hysteria' seems like a valid assessment.

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"She even planned it for 3am, trying to hit the Er off peak."

3am is the tail end of peak time here, the worst time turn up.

24 hours is nothing. The way that HCW is carrying on: on first reading I assumed she'd been there a week.

If she can pick and choose when to come into the Emergency Room then she can visit a GP.

 

[Teghern]

"She even planned it for 3am, trying to hit the Er off peak."

3am is the tail end of peak time here, the worst time turn up.

24 hours is nothing. The way that HCW is carrying on: on first reading I assumed she'd been there a week.

If she can pick and choose when to come into the Emergency Room then she can visit a GP.

Really should be a penalty system for these sort of timewasters, "headache uwu" I've spent 18+ hours stuck sat in a chair in A&E before and that's with the requisite bleeding orifices, no such thing as "off peak".,

 

[Flourishing Pinecone ❧]

I don't think this person needs a psych hold (are they really at risk of harm to self or others? I could see her being an anxious nightmare and saying something flippant like "if you don't take my concerns seriously I may as well leave and die at home!!"), but they certainly sound like a nightmare.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Hysteria' seems like a valid assessment.

This just sounds fake and dumb.

A migraineur with a four-day migraine that isn't responding to their home meds is going to have to wait a bit after triage, but they've likely been in this ED a few times before, the doc will look at their old visits, order something IM and maybe labs/fluids if the four days of vomiting seems credible.

ED staff isn't going to do anything to try to make this lady stay longer. Mask up, sure, fine, you doing OK with those ice chips? If a patient isn't reporting suicidal ideation, they're not going to claim she did. Great; now someone has to get pulled to be a sitter, and the patient can't go anywhere until there's a MH eval.

I think this was written by a chronic illness enjoyer who was perseverating on plans for her martyrdom, complete with unbelievers mocking her. The waiting until 0300, providing her own masks, and "narcotics on hold pending psych eval" sound like a patient's fantasy, not staff. The audience she's writing for is probably very sympathetic to someone not getting round-the-clock IV Dilaudid for migraine.

 

[Breadbear]

I wouldn't take masks from some rando in the ER either

 

[anliteralidiot]

I don't think this person needs a psych hold (are they really at risk of harm to self or others? I could see her being an anxious nightmare and saying something flippant like "if you don't take my concerns seriously I may as well leave and die at home!!"), but they certainly sound like a nightmare.

Agreed. They certainly sound crazy, but putting people in the psych ward over possibly nothing is stupid. Just make her wait in the ER, ffs.

 

[Free the Pedos]

Really should be a penalty system for these sort of timewasters, "headache uwu" I've spent 18+ hours stuck sat in a chair in A&E before and that's with the requisite bleeding orifices, no such thing as "off peak".,

I’ve been wondering: do you guys have an intermediate option between the ER/A&E and the GP in the UK? In the US we have urgent care, which is exactly that and helps divert people from the ER who have an urgent but not emergency problem.

 

[Otterly]

I’ve been wondering: do you guys have an intermediate option between the ER/A&E and the GP in the UK? In the US we have urgent care, which is exactly that and helps divert people from the ER who have an urgent but not emergency problem.

Yes and no, mainly no is the answer. There are a very small number of minor injuries units in Scotland - they’re usually only open daytime hours and you need to go through 111 to access them. All are in hospitals as far as I know here, they’re not in A and E.
I know most other European countries have some kind of acute care that’s not emergency level. We desperately need more of it here. Provision is patchy.
We’ve ended up with a and e blocked up with people who don’t even need urgent care, they should be dealt with by a GP, but if it’s a two week wait to see one, and your kid has an ear infection and is crying in pain, or you’ve slipped and suspect your wrist is broken, you’ll end up at a and e. Like it’s the third world. The nhs is a mess

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

It’s very often used as a placating/ placeholder diagnosis’ because people will flounce if you slap a BPD label on them. CPTSD soothes them and keeps them engaged with therapy becasue unlike BPD its external things at fault in their mind.
You can treat BPD - DBT (dialectical behavioural therapy) has a good response rate. But it’s a very challenging process for the sufferer and they have to want to change. If the patient has no insight as so many borderlines don’t, it’ll fail.

As a person with CPTSD ( heloo childhood abuse) um it might be just comorbid , you rarely get one diagnosis is often just multiple comorbid diagnosis in one giant gordian knot of hell ,and you develop extremly unhealthy ways of coping over time with one disorder, My dad had similar issue but he ended up abusive narcissist , i on the other hand developed anxiety and avoindance issues, i dont think you can properly treat your issues unless you accept A) shit is fucked B) what exactly is fucked they ofthen they couch it in not exactly your fault talk buut it will be your fault if you keep that way. Generaly they make it is like your choise but make sure you get the future is more fucked without therapy and meds choise.

 

[Otterly]

As a person with CPTSD ( heloo childhood abuse)

Sorry to hear that, and that was one thing I said in the post - it’s a real diagnosis and something like being an abused spouse or child (especially child, as they don’t have the tools to understand or deal with it) that would get you that diagnosis.
Yes I agree with what you’re saying - it’s rarely one concrete diagnosis for something so complex and long standing and there’s not an issue with placeholder doagnoses as long as the intent is to tease out what’s really wrong. Sometimes you just need a code for the form. I know psychiatrists who are very loathe to label with schizophrenia or bpd and put other things first.
Most munchies or troons don’t have that though. You look at Rhys McKinnon who claims he has cptsd and he’s had a fairly normal middle class upbringing - his rationale is that nasty words in the internet made him sad. In reality, I suspect his therapist has slapped that label on him to keep him in treatment. Ideally you’d then work to fix the issue as you seem to be doing, but that requires insight. You clearly have that but this entire site is looking at people who don’t. Rhys is happy with the diagnosis because it’s a get out for him. You use it for understanding and healing, not the same thing
It does suck for people with a genuinely traumatic past to be labelled with such things in the same box as the munchies etc. hope you are getting the support you need to move on with life so you can be happy and fulfilled

There are real ehlers danlos sufferers, real need for a lot of things munchies claim.

 

[WarpedTourWasFun]

"She even planned it for 3am, trying to hit the Er off peak."

3am is the tail end of peak time here, the worst time turn up.

24 hours is nothing. The way that HCW is carrying on: on first reading I assumed she'd been there a week.

If she can pick and choose when to come into the Emergency Room then she can visit a GP.

LMAO that's right as the bars all close, and the drunks get dropped off the ER by "friends"