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

[Kate Farms Shill]

Did you chase after specific diagnoses? Like did you have a game plan when you went in that you were going to have X,Y,Z symptoms in order to get [test] that would then get you [diagnosis] or just do things to sicken yourself and let the doctors decide what you had?

 

[BringBackForensicFiles]

Diuretics/laxatives are the only thing I can think of realisticly that would drop your potassium level quickly.



You won’t. Where there’s a will there’s a way, be transparent.



Do you engage in or have the urge to engage in other attention seeking behavior?

Were you actively on social media with the faking?

I was taking dandelion root OTC and had bought albuterol and Bumex from an online pharmacy with an online doctor. I pretty much mixed them altogether and that massively dropped all my levels rapidly. I hid them during admissions to keep my levels low.

I no longer have the urges to engage in any sort of attention seeking behaviors, though I do still get pangs of jealousy if a friend or family member is sick or hospitalized, but I’m honest with my therapist about my feelings.

I never really utilized social media to gain much ground as far as attention seeking and sympathy. Back when I was heavily engaging was about the time that Healthboards was going strong and Facebook was just getting started and I don’t think Instagram even existed yet. I engaged a little on Healthboards, but back then it was just the family computer in the living room and I was scared of getting caught, so I didn’t really use the internet too much for the attention.

Did you chase after specific diagnoses? Like did you have a game plan when you went in that you were going to have X,Y,Z symptoms in order to get [test] that would then get you [diagnosis] or just do things to sicken yourself and let the doctors decide what you had?

Yes, I would research different illnesses and try to find which ones I could possibly replicate. I always had a specific illness in mind, but I also couldn’t help myself and would always somewhat alter the typical presentation or treatment so that I was always getting worse. For example, if I managed to make myself sick I would toss my antibiotics or not allow myself to take Motrin or Tylenol so that I could keep the fever high. If I was right out faking from scratch I would research what was “going around” and present like that (kool aid popsicles can make a really convincing looking infected throat if you don’t touch them to your tongue and restrict fluids for a few days) and then make things worse on top of that. I’ve taken IVs I’ve bought online from medical supply stores and infected them and I’ve inserted them to give myself sepsis, especially if discharge was looming.

I’m not proud of what I’ve done and how much I’ve costed my parents and taxpayers over the years. I’m ashamed that I did this all for attention that I felt I couldn’t get in other ways. And I’m sorry.

 

[Freezerburn420691]

I stepped away from the Morgan McCastor fiasco for quite some time because her and her mother’s charades for attention and money were downright sickening. I checked in yesterday and SURPRISE nothing has changed since they locked her up in the looney bin.

She is back to attempting to be on palliative care for medication. According to her, her psychiatrist is prescribing “most of her meds” and at her most recent visit, he questioned her motives regarding palliative care (AS A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL SHOULD BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO REAL NEED FOR IT!). She says that he accused her of drug seeking and she adds she IS looking for medicine but NOT in the drug addict way he accused her of! Let’s all have a good laugh at that line. He told her she shouldn’t need pain meds and weed. He also did not want to prescribe her Ativan again with pain medication which of course Morgan thinks is stupid. I hope this doctor sticks to his guns because she is an addict looking for a high. She only wants palliative care because her drs will only give her four pain pills a day so she is attempting to cheat the system (but she’s not an addict!!!)

Morgan and her mother are disgusting sleezeballs who look for a handout wherever they can. I have never seen two people attempt to get so many freebies and attention from a medical condition. They are frauds. Morgan doesn’t need more medication, she needs to grow the fuck up and get a fucking job instead of draining resources meant for SICK patients. Her doctors need to stop beating around the bush and tell her that.

 

[StasisOne]

I stepped away from the Morgan McCastor fiasco for quite some time because her and her mother’s charades for attention and money were downright sickening. I checked in yesterday and SURPRISE nothing has changed since they locked her up in the looney bin.

She is back to attempting to be on palliative care for medication. According to her, her psychiatrist is prescribing “most of her meds” and at her most recent visit, he questioned her motives regarding palliative care (AS A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL SHOULD BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO REAL NEED FOR IT!). She says that he accused her of drug seeking and she adds she IS looking for medicine but NOT in the drug addict way he accused her of! Let’s all have a good laugh at that line. He told her she shouldn’t need pain meds and weed. He also did not want to prescribe her Ativan again with pain medication which of course Morgan thinks is stupid. I hope this doctor sticks to his guns because she is an addict looking for a high. She only wants palliative care because her drs will only give her four pain pills a day so she is attempting to cheat the system (but she’s not an addict!!!)

Morgan and her mother are disgusting sleezeballs who look for a handout wherever they can. I have never seen two people attempt to get so many freebies and attention from a medical condition. They are frauds. Morgan doesn’t need more medication, she needs to grow the fuck up and get a fucking job instead of draining resources meant for SICK patients. Her doctors need to stop beating around the bush and tell her that.

A lot of her posts lately are about suicide prevention, death, and dying. And she turns 26 this year, so will lose her health insurance from her parents. She really needs to get out of her parents house and into some sort of facility to deal with the depression foremost. Drugs without a change in environment aren't going to help that.

 

[The1ThatStartsWithD]

The only reason I even heard of it was because it comes up on illnessfakers and invariably turns into a cluster b blogfest.

A nurse once told me a whole bunch of signs like that she uses to determine if patients are going to be pains in the ass but fuck me if I remember any other than the classic asking for dilaudid but pretending not to remember the name.

My muse! You have summoned me from the drug seeker's hopeful dream, and from the deep, dark quagmire of dread that lurks in the back of every ER medic's mind! BEHOLD! YOU HAVE MENTIONED THE MOST NOTORIOUS NO-NAMED DRUG THAT EVERYONE REMEMBERS TO ASK FOR ANYWAY: THE ONE THAT STARTS WITH 'D'!

But, to contribute to this thread, here's one that fits nearly every munchsperg on IF: status dramaticus.

This. Although a small dose of benzos may help some who are a bit hypochondriac for real. Chill them out a bit.
I wonder how many of the munchies are prescribed high doses of these. Withdrawal can kill you.
Benzodiazepine prescriptions doubled from 2003-2015.

“Kids are different today"
I hear ev'ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she's not really ill
There's a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother's little helper
And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day
-The Rolling Stones

AAAH I love that song!

sperg ahead

Spoiler: SPERGING ABOUT MEDICATIONS

opium is a gift. opiates and opioids are still the best and most reliable medication we've ever found that works for multiple ills. In controlled use, it ends pain- physical and psychological.

Tolerance is the bitch of it. A controlled dose with tolerance breaks can save lives. Uncontrolled medication with these drugs is the problem.

Benzodiazepines are also a miracle. They have a low profile, side effects are often actually useful. For seizures, anxiety, hypochondria, insomnia, and many other things, they're fantastic. Again, tolerance is the bitch- though these drugs can often be taken at the same dose for decades.

Tolerance, with benzodiazepines, is more of a matter of perception. The drug has the same effect every time, but people no longer get the initial high from it after a while. They're chasing that. Using them like SSRIs, where you anticipate that the drug won't be felt "kicking in" but that the body will get used to it, can be more successful.

Both drug classes need to be tapered. Benzos can kill you if you go cold turkey, at least seizures will result. Both classes of drug are incredibly useful and very nearly medical magic. They have a place. We shouldn't be as afraid of using them as we are encouraged to be.

Munchies get prescribed these drugs not only for pain and fear, but also because opi-drugs do have a pronounced anti depressant effect, and benzos kill anxiety.

For people who are seeking out a "better" diagnosis than depression or anxiety, these drugs imply a physical illness, and are seen as acceptable. Even though for a lot of the munchie favorite diseases, an SSRI or SNRI would actually work. Digestive diseases can be straight up cured by regulating serotonin.

The implication that it's all in their head, that's what chaps them and sends them to the next doctor. A lot of doctors fall into the trap of wanting to monitor these patients, to control their medication doses, to try to hang onto them so they don't slide further to end stage (j tubes, ostomy, infusions, sepsis, etc)

You can't control them though. They want attention even if it kills them.

you can't control munchies, end stage comes to them all. whether they're binge eating, causing infections, faking symptoms, or starving themselves... you can't expect to treat them like regular patients and that becomes obvious pretty quickly.

This, this, this. You've said it better than I ever could.

I think the problem is that fibro is a catch all. It’s not helped by the fact that GPs are under pressure not to refer, and certain guidelines hamstring them. The reference ranges for TSH in the UK are insanely broad. GPs often only test TSH, and don’t do a full thyroid panel. Any rheumatic symptoms you might get a RF test but RF alone isn’t very useful - citrulin, ANA etc are more informative. Plus there’s a whole slew of arthritic conditions that are seronegative. Even things like spondylarthropathies don’t have hard and fast blood markers - most patients have the hlab27 gene but not all by any means. You need an MRI to see early stage changes and that’s expensive.

So you’ve got a mixed population of malingerers, women suffering from rheumatic and thyroid issues that could be sorted out with correct diagnosis and treatment and somatised depression (shit life syndrome.)

In other cultures somatisation of depression is much more socially acceptable and some cultures have unique ailments that are accepted and treated sympathetically that just don’t exist elsewhere (heavy legs in France springs to mind, but let me go find examples and I’ll come back and edit this because it is relevant to munchie ism.)

What we don’t have in the West is that culturally accepted somatic illness - perhaps if we did it’d be beneficial? Perhaps some munchies are actually manifesting this in a western context??

Edited to add the term I was looking for is culture bound syndromes - a fascinating rabbithole if you’re bored.

Culture-bound syndrome - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

http://archive.li/YimSu

Thank you for adding these references. I love a good rabbit hole. Fascinating shit!

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Dani is still copying Jaquie despite that Jaquie killed herself doing exactly this bullshit. fucking with her tube


She's back on the sacred nectar after a toob change.


And she's still fishing for MCAS, claiming to be allergic to everything and shooting Benny as well as opiates through her J tube.


Bonus: this comment from Technicolor Kelly

 

[Sooper Speshul Southerner]

Dani is still copying Jaquie despite that Jaquie killed herself doing exactly this bullshit. fucking with her tube
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She's back on the sacred nectar after a toob change.
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And she's still fishing for MCAS, claiming to be allergic to everything and shooting Benny as well as opiates through her J tube.
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Bonus: this comment from Technicolor Kelly
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Serious question. Is Kelly a guy or girl?

 

[Tubie Whoobie]

Dani is still copying Jaquie despite that Jaquie killed herself doing exactly this bullshit. fucking with her tube
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She's back on the sacred nectar after a toob change.
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And she's still fishing for MCAS, claiming to be allergic to everything and shooting Benny as well as opiates through her J tube.
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Bonus: this comment from Technicolor Kelly
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Double bonus:


I don’t know much about feeding tubes. Are you able to get a different pump? You know, so you wouldn’t need more **toys??

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Double bonus:
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I don’t know much about feeding tubes. Are you able to get a different pump? You know, so you wouldn’t need more toobz?

She's actually gunning for a port again, not another feeding tube.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

I know a lot of the people we discuss read here, so I don’t want to go in to specifics, but I found OTC supplements that drastically drop your potassium and I would take a bunch of those to screw up my electrolytes. Potassium can cause cardiac issues so I’d always be admitted on a heart monitor.

1. I was caught and confronted during a hospitalization regarding my kidneys that some tests came back that they specifically ran to see if I was doing this to myself and they came back indisputable that I was. They confronted me with the resident whom I trusted and the psychiatrist in a gentle, but firm manner. I was able to admit and felt much better for it. I was angry for awhile and tried to deny it, but they presented the evidence and helped walk me through to admitting it.

2. I did individual intensive DBT and CBT and for a few months I did outpatient IOP for patients with BPD. I also kept thought logs and urge logs for urges to go to the hospital. I also made a contract with my PCP and therapist about steps to take if I truly was feeling sick. Having steps and organization really helped me be able to know what to do if I was having urges and what to expect if I was truly sick.

3. From taking so many supplements my metabolism is a bit screwed up, but mostly those same supplements destroyed my intestines and I now live with an ostomy, which I was thrilled about at the time, but despise now.



I am diagnosed with OCD and all my providers know I have a history of Anorexia and Factitious Disorder. I take Prozac, which has been very helpful with the OCD and urges.

I don’t want to give the people whom we discuss here who also read here too many ideas, but in college I took a bacterial culture from science lab that we had grown to test antibiotics and ingested a few of the strep colonies that had grown to make myself sick. Just one of many examples.

I did intensive individual DBT and CBT along with thought and urge records. I also did IOP for people with BPD for a few months. I have a plan in place for if I get sick and all my providers and my medical records indicate I have a history of Factitious Disorder. I still use that plan to this day even though I haven’t engaged in over 5 years.

I’m not dependent on my parents. I live in my own apartment, have a full time professional job, am dating, and living a normal life.
I always have to be aware of urges that crop up, but I now have a real life and strong skills to help me cope.

Did your family start getting suspicious after awhile or did they always believe you were sick? Did they ever confront you? Did doctors ever have a “word” with them? If they were suspicious did they start refusing to take you to the ER or go along with the medical drama?

I always wonder about the family of these IG munchies. Obviously you have some like Morgan where Mom is MBP but I wonder about AJ or Aubs family and/or spouses. While portrayed by the munchie as supportive, I wonder if behind the scenes they start to question stuff. I think putting posting about them publicly is one way the munchie manipulates them. They show them all the compliments and comments from others about them being such supportive angels. It adds public pressure to the situation to play along and not question.

I think the most common situation would be it dividing families, with some believing the munchie and others not. So then you have the supporters thinking the non-believers are so awful, and the non-believers tearing their hair out watching loved ones being manipulated. It would be quite toxic and I think the munchie would do all they could to alienate the non-believers from the family.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

Serious question. Is Kelly a guy or girl?

Kelly is female.

Back story on her: Formerly obese as a teenager, took up aikido and lost tons of weight (timeline might be off here but she seems to have only taken up aikido after she started to try to get healthy), then developed anorexia- binge/purge subtype (like down to 60 lbs) and an exercise addiction. She went to treatment and relapsed a bunch of times, suicide attempts, multiple hospitalizations for self-induced hypokalemia and signed herself out AMA more than once, self harm, etc. Got a GJ for gastroparesis from her purging. Came to /snow/'s attention when she got entangled with morbidly obese munchie lolcow Kadeelyn Konstantino who was the gold standard of ridiculous illness fakers until she died. They met IRL and Kelly continues to talk about her all the time. It's been about a year since her last ED treatment and she's now taken up yoga and epilepsy and still is on tube feeds. Jesus freak but not the squeaky clean golly gee whiz variety. Like Dani, starved her brain cells away and can barely write a coherent sentence.

 

[cow4prez2024]

As we find ourselves in a Munchie Renaissance, it seems the time is right to share with you all the munchie madness of Emily Martell, or @hope4allwhobreathe.

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Emily is a college student, makeup aficionado, ballerina, and former ana-chan who claims to be diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses: #anxiety, #ocd, #ptsd, #depression, and certainly - although she doesn’t always tag it/admit it, #bpd. She also claims to have gastroparesis and IBS, although she frequently posts pictures and comments about coffee and alcohol, two things which are known to be harsh on the GI tract. She follows a bunch of other munchies on IG, and their service dog accounts, including MollyOllyOstomy and our very own Kelly Ronahan. She’s liked a bunch of ostomy pics and I think she may be gunning for one.

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Something that continues to astound me is how these munchies shamelessly get pictures of themselves lying in hospital beds, with their IV poles, undergoing procedures, etc. Who takes these?!?!

Two years ago, Emily got a psychiatric service dog, Scout. She made a GoFuckMe in order to get Scout because insurance wouldn’t pay $10k for a dog. The page is down now but I don’t think she met even half of her goal and I’d bet money that Mommy and Daddy paid for it.

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What Scout does for her and why she needs a service dog is unclear. She’s said that Scout provides deep pressure therapy during panic attacks and flashbacks (which is somewhat legit, although on its own I wouldn’t think would qualify someone for a service dog), as well as getting medication and reminding her to take medication. As an able bodied person who can set an alarm on her phone, I’m not sure why she needs a dog to do those things for her.
She also has an account for her service dog @Scouttheservicedog. Her main is private but the dog account is public.

She also likes to post crying pictures and sadposts that are clearly aiming to get people’s sympathy.

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[Burn Book]

Wow. I wonder who is taking those dramatic hospital pictures of her.

 

[Otterly]

I think the most common situation would be it dividing families, with some believing the munchie and others not.

This has been my experience in the family I know. Half believe her, half don’t. The ones who do think the non believers are awful for not, and the non believers think those who do are gullible.

Another side effect has been damage to family members health - the siblings of this person have had their minor health issues ignored as children (only the munchie was ‘allowed’ to be ill) and as adults have carried this mindset forward - they don’t seek care in case they are seen as ‘making a fuss.’

 

[Brain Power]

As we find ourselves in a Munchie Renaissance, it seems the time is right to share with you all the munchie madness of Emily Martell, or @hope4allwhobreathe.

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Emily is a college student, makeup aficionado, ballerina, and former ana-chan who claims to be diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses: #anxiety, #ocd, #ptsd, #depression, and certainly - although she doesn’t always tag it/admit it, #bpd. She also claims to have gastroparesis and IBS, although she frequently posts pictures and comments about coffee and alcohol, two things which are known to be harsh on the GI tract. She follows a bunch of other munchies on IG, and their service dog accounts, including MollyOllyOstomy and our very own Kelly Ronahan. She’s liked a bunch of ostomy pics and I think she may be gunning for one.

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Something that continues to astound me is how these munchies shamelessly get pictures of themselves lying in hospital beds, with their IV poles, undergoing procedures, etc. Who takes these?!‽

Two years ago, Emily got a psychiatric service dog, Scout. She made a GoFuckMe in order to get Scout because insurance wouldn’t pay $10k for a dog. The page is down now but I don’t think she met even half of her goal and I’d bet money that Mommy and Daddy paid for it.

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What Scout does for her and why she needs a service dog is unclear. She’s said that Scout provides deep pressure therapy during panic attacks and flashbacks (which is somewhat legit, although on its own I wouldn’t think would qualify someone for a service dog), as well as getting medication and reminding her to take medication. As an able bodied person who can set an alarm on her phone, I’m not sure why she needs a dog to do those things for her.
She also has an account for her service dog @Scouttheservicedog. Her main is private but the dog account is public.

She also likes to post crying pictures and sadposts that are clearly aiming to get people’s sympathy.

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I feel your pain, doggie.

 

[tasty humane burger]

As we find ourselves in a Munchie Renaissance, it seems the time is right to share with you all the munchie madness of Emily Martell, or @hope4allwhobreathe.

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Emily is a college student, makeup aficionado, ballerina, and former ana-chan who claims to be diagnosed with multiple mental illnesses: #anxiety, #ocd, #ptsd, #depression, and certainly - although she doesn’t always tag it/admit it, #bpd. She also claims to have gastroparesis and IBS, although she frequently posts pictures and comments about coffee and alcohol, two things which are known to be harsh on the GI tract. She follows a bunch of other munchies on IG, and their service dog accounts, including MollyOllyOstomy and our very own Kelly Ronahan. She’s liked a bunch of ostomy pics and I think she may be gunning for one.

Spoiler: Images

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Something that continues to astound me is how these munchies shamelessly get pictures of themselves lying in hospital beds, with their IV poles, undergoing procedures, etc. Who takes these?!‽

Two years ago, Emily got a psychiatric service dog, Scout. She made a GoFuckMe in order to get Scout because insurance wouldn’t pay $10k for a dog. The page is down now but I don’t think she met even half of her goal and I’d bet money that Mommy and Daddy paid for it.

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What Scout does for her and why she needs a service dog is unclear. She’s said that Scout provides deep pressure therapy during panic attacks and flashbacks (which is somewhat legit, although on its own I wouldn’t think would qualify someone for a service dog), as well as getting medication and reminding her to take medication. As an able bodied person who can set an alarm on her phone, I’m not sure why she needs a dog to do those things for her.
She also has an account for her service dog @Scouttheservicedog. Her main is private but the dog account is public.

She also likes to post crying pictures and sadposts that are clearly aiming to get people’s sympathy.

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Why do all these Munchies talk about God so much? It's really unnerving. Either that or they're total new aged white girls.

 

[fenny]

Every animal in a pic with her looks unhappy.

 

[Kate Farms Shill]

That doggo looks like he's got a fair amount of Coonhound in him, in which case he will look like someone pissed in his cheerios no matter how happy he is. Even brand new coonhound puppies look like they're tired of living. Not saying he's happy, of course.

Psychiatric service dogs are a thing, and under ADA law in order to be considered a service dog it must do one trained task that mitigates a diagnosed disability. So if she could argue her panic attacks were debilitating and he is trained to do deep pressure therapy in response to them then yes, he is considered a service dog.

 

[cow4prez2024]

She might be part Coonhound. I know she's a Catahoula mix mostly, and they're related.
I believe some of Emily's issues are legitimate but the degree to which she experiences them may be exaggerated, and the amount of attention she seeks certainly warrants closer inspection. I've known people with some of the same diagnoses as her, as well as people with more debilitating diagnoses such as severe bipolar, psychosis, etc. who have/had much, much more severe symptoms, who are able to function just fine without a service dog once they get on the right regime of meds and therapy. They're also not huge attention whores though. I definitely think a big part of it is that she gets off on the attention and pity, which is also why I think she's a munchie. Also, her symptoms seem very adjustable, and she does weird things like show off all her meds and tests and other munchie shit.
Here she describes more in depth why she needs Scout:

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Lately, I've gotten some questions and DMs as to what exactly Scout does for me. So I thought I'd share how much she's changed my life ❤
In 2015, I began college. I was already diagnosed with OCD, PTSD, Anxiety, and an Eating Disorder. Freshman year was hell, and no amount of medication was able to make the panic and fear stop. So I stopped going to class, drifted away from friends, and slept the days away wishing I were dead. I was then diagnosed with Depression, and it hit like a train. I couldn't take it anymore, and the "last resort" idea from my psychiatrist was a psychiatric service dog. In comes Scout!
She is trained to mitigate my symptoms (skin picking, self harm behaviors, obsessive cleaning, tapping, shaking, crying, hyperventilating, etc) and assist with daily activities (medication reminders, DPT, waking up). She's with me 99% of the time, including when I shower and sleep, to make sure I'm safe from myself and my illnesses. She also gives me the confidence to do things I never thought I'd be able to do- I'm almost done with college, I have a job, I have my own home...these things simply wouldn't be possible without her. She gave me a new lease on life, and for that I'm so grateful. ❤#ourstory #sd#servicedog #mentalhealth

Sharing pics of her many meds, subtle brag(?) about being on benzos:

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Caption: This is what life looks like for us right now. Through the struggle we just try to snuggle. My girl takes so many pills, it's scary to think what they do to her. But I need her to get better. The better hasn't come yet, but we're still wading through benzo changes So yeah, papers may be late. She might miss class. She might be moody or forget to eat. Just understand that this is our reality. This is our life with mental illness. So please be kind, please. (Last pic is an awesome illustration i found. Pc on photo) #servicedog #hard #school#college #anxiety #depression #ocd#ptsd

She used to do beauty pageants, which is probably what fueled her anorexia. When she started her IG, she mostly blogged about her ED and anxiety. The munchie shit really went into high gear after she got her SD and realized she was competing with some mega-munchie IG influencers.

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This grinds my gears because... a depressive episode does not happen in a day. A depressive episode is 2 weeks or longer. Yes, I'm a psychfag.




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You can't slap a sign on your dog and call it a service dog. Let me say it again: YOU CANNOT JUST CALL YOUR DOG A SERVICE DOG. They are a critical piece of medical equipment that saves lives. This came to a head today when we made a trip to Wal-Mart. There was a HUGE, unruly German Shepherd pup just meandering around the store, NO VEST or other outward sign as to its job, and this thing lunged at Scout. Teeth barred, growling, and the handler gave zero shits about it. In NY state, all service dogs must be vested in public places at all times. So, after this incident, my sd was shaken, scared, and I was royally pissed off. I didn't want to be a jerk, but this guy put me and my dog in danger. Called the manager who was SO nice and helpful, and the owner showed a TAG (like printed paper) on the dog's collar saying "service". I call bull- no sd, even in training- lunges at another dog in public. So mad.
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PS- Don't come at me with the ADA not requiring vests...yes, as a law student, I am aware. NY has another set of laws we have to follow mainly due to NYC. Please stop yelling at me, I yell back. #servicedog#servicedogsofinstagram #anxiety#depression #ocd #PTSD #angry #ugh

Service dog fraud is a problem, but this is just funny because she's not a law student! She's graduating with a bachelor's in Philosophy/Psychology and is doing an MBA next year. Not even close to law. She's such a liar.

She also had a blog at one point.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

One thing that becomes clear with all these munchies is that they have no IRL friends. Some manage to rope in a spouse or parents, but other than that they are isolated and alone. Their endless quest for medical and SM attention alienates everyone.

Makes me wonder if their munching drove away all the friends or if lack of friends was already an issue and munching became a way to get attention in lieu of friendships.

The IGs and YT certainly show munchies as very lonely people. Even the famous AJ had to have a church send strangers to visit her, and she was so excited she did a YT about it.