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I have a friend who is hell-bent on fabricating or, at the least, embellishing medical issues. She tries to create a specific persona on FB--one in which her friends think she isn't online much. However, she LIVES on FB. Every moment she's awake, she's looking for evidence that her friends are bigger losers than she is or she's rehashing every trivial health problem she encounters. Recently, one of her immediate family members (they're estranged) was diagnosed with terminal cancer. My friend's Munchausen by Facebook habit increased ten-fold. She can't stop herself from typing out long, ridiculous status updates about medical drama of hers from years ago. In the past week, she sometimes even rehashed the same problem three times in an hour or two--very old, very insignificant "problems." Long ago, people stopped commenting or liking her attention-seeking posts. She has lost her temper and dumped a few friends over the last couple years because of her drama and passive aggressive behavior, yet she blames everyone and everything except herself. She also has a tendency to partake in what we (her friends) have called Munchausen's by Grandmother, Munchausen's by Cat, and Munchausen's by Friend's Dead Mother.....because she has tried reeling in attention for herself, based on the emotional pain she has when worrying about others. And, believe me.....she has never worried about anyone but herself.

June 27, 2016 - 12:59am

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