Munchausen Syndrome Analysis

When a young child is sick, we take them to the doctor. What if we do not know they are sick,

There are people who, due to the stigma surrounding mental illness in mainstream media, have it in their minds that having a mental illness would make people pay more attention to them. According to Web MD’s article titled “Factitious Disorders”, this individual will deliberately and consciously act as if he or she has a physical or mental illness when he or she is not really afflicted. Symptoms include but are not limited to: the presence of symptoms only when the person is with others or being observed, unclear symptoms that are not controllable and that become more severe or change once treatment has begun, extensive knowledge of hospitals and/or medical terminology, as well as the textbook descriptions of illnesses, history of seeking treatment at many hospitals, clinics, and doctors offices, and reluctance by the patient to allow healthcare professionals to meet with or talk to family members, friends, and prior doctors. Although faking an illness is certainly not considered typical behavior, if the person faking said illness simply decided to stop and be themselves, they would most likely be considered exceptionally normal. But since they decide to add to the stigma of mental illness, one is left wondering why. Some would intelligibly say that the person just desires to “deviate from the norms” and write them off as peculiar and childish. On the other hand, some would consider it a sign of deeper complications. Whether it be a troubled home life, the individual simply not feeling important enough, or having identity issues— no one can be exactly sure. Furthermore, some would say that fabricating disorders could be an indicator of the individual having sociopathy, or even a narcissistic or antisocial personality disorder. By taking this all into account, this is

In our daily lives the theme of peer pressure still occurs. Shown in an article, “Did a Rare Form of Child Abuse Make a Daughter Murder Her Mom?” by Harriet Sokmensuer, the whole point of the article is to describe why the daughter killed her mother. The mother, Dee Dee Blanchard suffered from Munchausen by proxy, which is a disease where someone exaggerates or induces illness in a child for attention

Imagine your own family member constantly manipulating you into thinking you were going to be forever young. Now imagine that person telling every individual that you cannot care for yourself nor will ever get better. To be completely honest, that is a scary thought, not having any control over your own body and believing your caretaker that you are mentally incapacitate to care for yourself. The documentary I chose to watch and write about is Mommy Dead & Dearest, this documentary was released 11 March 2017 and the director is Erin Lee Carr. In this documentary, we see Dee Dee and Gypsy’s narrative who brings Munchausen Syndrome by proxy — a form of child abuse that involves a caretaker making up an illness for

The mother attempts to gain attention for herself by acting like a dedicated and loving mother, one that she wishes she could be. When alone with their child the parent will abuse them, both physically and emotionally. The child is a victim of maltreatment and can not get away. The parent lies about physical and physiological symptoms in the child, causing this child to be known as ill by all who come around them. Parents with Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome do not appear psychotic and based on incidents caught on film by researchers, are calm and collected when inflicting harm on their

This is Justina Pelletier. When she was fourteen years old, she became sick. Her parents took her to Tufts Medical Center, seen here, where she was treated for mitochondrial disease, described by the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation as a rare disorder in which the mitochondria in cells fail to create the energy needed to survive. She was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital, pictured here, where the parents were hoping to get a second opinion. The doctors there believed Justina to be suffering from a psychiatric disorder instead. When her parents tried to remove her from the Children’s Hospital’s care to take her back to Tufts, Boston Children’s Hospital claimed Justina’s parents were being medically negligent, meaning they were not adequately

The perpetrator is often a parent and typically the mother. However, there have been cases where the father acts as perpetrator. The first reported case of MSBP with a male caretaker occurred in 1990 when a father complained to physicians that his newborn baby would often stop breathing, turn blue and have seizures. Following extensive evaluation of apnea, it was discovered that the father, himself was suffocating and shaking the baby (5). Perpetrators show an avid interest for hospital care and usually have experience in the medical field. Munchausen syndrome is present in 10% of such perpetrators (3).

If you know someone with munchausen syndrome, you know how bad the disease is. If you don't know someone with the disease, I will tell you all about it. the disease isn't very big or popular anymore, because not a lot of women don't have this disease anymore. I have done a lot of research, and most of the diagnoses were done in the 1900s, but the disease is still around some places. This disease is mostly diagnosed to women, because most men don't feel the need to these kind of things. Personally, I don't know anyone with the disease, but I have been doing research for a while and things do get really serious. The disease is when women, that have children, don't feel enough love from their kids so they poison their kids food, and when kids are sick, what do they usually want the most their momma. Then the kids want their mother and the mothers feel loved more that usual. Women with munchausen are putting the lives of innocent children in danger, some are even going to the extreme and taking their lives.

This paper will examine Munchhausen’s Syndrome by Proxy and the surveillance of families, describe and apply relevant principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, and fidelity from the ANA Code of Ethics, discuss some available resources that might help resolve the dilemma and finally discuss the dilemma outcomes particular to this patient’s situation.

To begin, I chose this article because when I read the title of the article I did not know what Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP) was. Therefore, I decided to read this article so that I would know what MSBP meant and how it is relevant to social work. I think that the author did a great job simply explaining what MSBP is and the components associated to it. I like that they broke the article into different sections so that it was easier to read and so that you could only read about a certain subtopic if you wanted to. The one thing I did not like about the article was that they did not give a detailed scenario of MSBP. They explained what it is and what it kind of looks like. But I did not

Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP), is a form of child abuse in which a parent or caregiver makes up or actually causes illnesses within a child so that they may obtain professional medical treatment and advice for the child all the while

Münchausen syndrome is a psychiatric disorder that is distinguished by the patient causing or faking physical or psychological ailments for the sole purpose of being admitted to the hospital. A psychiatric consult nurse sees about one or two Münchausen cases a month (Interview with John Hauber, RN). Out of the entire United States population, only half to two percent of people have the disorder (medicinenet.com), but the number is probably higher than that because the statistic shown only represents the number of people diagnosed, and not everybody that has Münchausen is properly identified as having the disorder. (Interview with John Hauber, RN). The numbers are higher in certain subpopulations, such as people who have been diagnosed as

I propose Donna Roberts be diagnosed with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSP). The criteria for MSP, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders V (DSM-5), include: falsification of “psychological or physical signs or symptoms or causing injury or disease in another person with the intention to deceive, presenting another person to others as sick, injured, or having problems functioning, and continuation of deception even without receiving any benefit or reward” (“Tests and Diagnosis,” 2014). MSP often occurs in mothers who create or exaggerate their child’s symptoms by ways of falsifying medical records, altering diagnostic tests, or physically inducing the

People with a factious disorder imposed on another such as Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy have a need for their victim which is usually their child to be seen as injured or ill (Cleveland Clinic, 2015). The perpetrator does not do this

While agree that a person who is not sick can never abuse a child I do not see it