I would suggest that it probably depends on whether the chronic health problems are real or imagined. I have recently learned that Munchausen syndrome has been renamed as "factitious disorder." Its prevalence is unknown in part because those who have the disorder sometimes inflict real injuries on themselves. Also, it is distinguishable from malingering because there is no intent to get our of work or other unpleasant situations. Factitious disorders are motivated by a desire to get sympathy. I am a grossly unsympathetic person. Over her 98 years, my mother managed to endure 27 broken bones and bragged about the speed of her recoveries to new acquaintances. During her last eight years under my care, she did manage one broken wrist and a case of pneumonia from which she recovered, even as she pretended to believe she had been transferred to a care facility. Was that dimentia or just another case of falsifying her reality? Until just a few months before her demise from multiple organ failure, she returned to enough cognitive function to enable her to play bridge in a club once a week. I posted a video on Youtube, entitled Omi's last days, because when I recorded her bout with pneumonia I was fairly certain this event was similar to other announcements of her imminent demise. She recovered and lived another three years. As she lay dying for sure, she roused from a comatose state and verbally dismissed me and the spouse as having been faithful servants. Her delusions of grandure persisted to the end. That is how I learned that speech is lodged in the ancient autonomic brain.
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ReplyDeleteI would suggest that it probably depends on whether the chronic health problems are real or imagined. I have recently learned that Munchausen syndrome has been renamed as "factitious disorder." Its prevalence is unknown in part because those who have the disorder sometimes inflict real injuries on themselves. Also, it is distinguishable from malingering because there is no intent to get our of work or other unpleasant situations.
ReplyDeleteFactitious disorders are motivated by a desire to get sympathy. I am a grossly unsympathetic person. Over her 98 years, my mother managed to endure 27 broken bones and bragged about the speed of her recoveries to new acquaintances. During her last eight years under my care, she did manage one broken wrist and a case of pneumonia from which she recovered, even as she pretended to believe she had been transferred to a care facility.
Was that dimentia or just another case of falsifying her reality? Until just a few months before her demise from multiple organ failure, she returned to enough cognitive function to enable her to play bridge in a club once a week.
I posted a video on Youtube, entitled Omi's last days, because when I recorded her bout with pneumonia I was fairly certain this event was similar to other announcements of her imminent demise. She recovered and lived another three years. As she lay dying for sure, she roused from a comatose state and verbally dismissed me and the spouse as having been faithful servants. Her delusions of grandure persisted to the end.
That is how I learned that speech is lodged in the ancient autonomic brain.
That's a lot to have lived through, Hannah.
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