Faking Mental Illness for Attention

Oblivion wrote:I do it for the gov't benefits. So does Reaper.

Makes sense if it pays well.

Reaper gets her benefits for being a single mother, no?
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justonemoreperson » Mon Oct 07, 2019 3:33 am

If people with Munchausen's feign illness to get attention, I can't see why they wouldn't also do it using mental illness.

Precisely. Then there is the Munchausen's by proxy, which is a strange thing.

FASD can some serious overlap such as impulse control, not responding to normative treatment attempts, etc - meaning that there is probably a major overdiagnosis of ASPD within those populations.
Which works really well if the current DSM doesn't technically acknowledge FASD since in the other catagory, they can demonize, turn their backs and throw human beings away.

Met a guy years and years ago that was FASD. He hated his mother for what she did to him as a fetus. The physical pain as a result of the altered development was a daily reminder for him.

ShaolinMonk wrote:

Oblivion wrote:I do it for the gov't benefits. So does Reaper.

Makes sense if it pays well.

Reaper gets her benefits for being a single mother, no?

No. My daughter is an adult now who can support herself. She doesn't live with me anymore.

You have succeeded where many have failed. Good on you.

Morons trolling for attention.

ShaolinMonk wrote:Is this not in the DSM?
What does it?
What is the purpose?

Does it give those that engage in this activity 'meaning?'

I was faking and also believed to some degree that I was sick, I am just what I am and that is whatever the other person sees.

What were you faking?
All anyone can see are your words on a screen and a ferret. The rest is filling in the blanks with imagination/ projection.

ShaolinMonk wrote:All anyone can see are your words on a screen and a ferret. The rest is filling in the blanks with imagination/ projection.

He's talking about real life.

You people and your electronic gadgets. It's all projection and imagination (not the creative kind).

From anxiety, depression, to dancing around people in an effort to sell oneself as a narcissist. Have been so blessed to witness all of these being feigned and more. Social results. People are lost, lonely, and more often than not pathetic. Naturally herd animals, they are simply doing what they do and it is because they will have witnessed positive results through other people at some point. They do not take into consideration the downsides they never saw. Always backfires.

ShaolinMonk wrote:What were you faking?
All anyone can see are your words on a screen and a ferret. The rest is filling in the blanks with imagination/ projection.

If anyone ever asks you, "On a scale of autistic to autistic how autistic are you?" Let me know and I will textually drop them 605 feet. Who knew this forum was as tall as the Space Needle. Fun fact.

Hopefully you are still being good, not doing the deed with all the other forum goers while I am away. I might have to reconsider our next session if so, or bind you with something or other. I have yet to decide if you are worth keeping.

Miss you.

^^ probably closer to the truth than most will admit.

Online Actors Guild around here, is it? *SMH*

If anyone ever asks you, "On a scale of autistic to autistic how autistic are you?" Let me know and I will textually drop them 605 feet.

Thank you.
Calling me autistic is not an insult in my book. Some of the most interesting people I have met online said they were. Makes no difference to me.
And some people have been very nasty to autistic people, because as the sick fks they are , they thought it was 'funny.'

They're not laughing now

It takes me all of my time to fake not being mentally ill.

Not sure I do it very well though.