Dennis Hastert, rapist.

Paul LePage, Maine governor, for being totally vile and seemingly impossible to get rid off.

“I was going to leave anyway,” says the guy in the very expensive seats who felt the need to ruin the show for everyone else.

But if your mother were Dee Dee she would have rejoiced at the offer of a colostomy. And if she were Lacey Sears, she would have had a blog dedicated to your colostomy bag. And if she were any of the women that I’m suspicious of, she wouldn’t be your mother... she’d be the random “volunteer” invading your hospital…

No, she did not have friends. She could not leave when she was 18. She was kept form knowing she was 18 for 4 years and her mother literally never let her be alone with others. She lied to make her believe she was 4 years younger than she was. A captor walking through the street with their captive does not mean that…

I think being on antipsychotics or anti depressants when you don’t need them could probably as bad as inducing physical symptoms in someone. Those kids you mentioned were still growing and their brains are still developing.

If this had been someone who wasn’t her mother would she deserve any jail time? She was a brainwashed hostage who was kept from knowing the was 18 to prevent her from gaining the freedom to leave. Her entire life was taken away from her and she was never allowed to be alone with anyone. Killing your captor to escape…

I think that most women never get to the point where they are torturing, imprisoning or murdering their “patient.” But I do think that a lot of women are on this spectrum. I just posted about someone I know in real life who seeks out care taking gigs, compulsively. I think there are many women, like her, that are…

She likely doesn’t pose a danger to anyone. Or at least not the same that we would usually assume of someone who commits this kind of crime but wasn’t horrifically abused. But our criminal justice system is really more focused on punishment for perpetration as opposed to protecting potential victims.

I actually know a woman, a friends mother, in her 50's whose mother had Munchausen- by- proxy. The friends mother was the focus of her mothers (friends grandmothers) disorder I witnessed this woman get snippy with the old bat so the old bat says to her sharply:“[name] you look sick you should go to bed.”

Speaking as a mom, if you subject your kids to medical abuse for decades, emancipation and zero communication as soon as they’re able seems like the best treatment you could expect from your victims.

With literally no one saving her from this awful treatment hiw can it be seen as anything but self defence? 10 years? Really? What danger does she pose?

I would second that sentiment, I have an aunt who was evaluated and diagnosed as Munchausen By Proxy. She has THREE kids, and one was almost done with high school by the time she was diagnosed. It’s likely she was standard Munchausen if she would have been diagnosed before kids, and transferred that attention seeking…

The article goes into this better than I can, but, essentially, doctors usually operate on the assumption that a parent is telling the truth about symptoms- and because Muchausen by proxy people usually have a medical background and are very good at regurgitating the right language, and really good at appearing…

People who should be sued for malpractice.

The woman is 71. She was brought up in an era when you stayed with a man no matter what: infidelity, beatings, drug addictions, him having children outside the marriage, etc. Add to that the fact that she’s his business manager and her whole identity is tied up with being Mrs. Dr. Bill Cosby, and you got someone…

Maybe they had an “arrangement” — a guy as odious as he must be (i.e. the sort of selfish narcissist who considers rape a longterm hobby) *probably* isn’t the sort of generous lover or kind soul one would want to keep sleeping with for decades.

Guessing she is suggesting all 50 women prefer to be unconscious when having sexual relations. Sure!

He’s clearly abusive. Let’s have some compassion for her and the literal decades of grooming that have happened. What is she supposed to do now?

Because self-deception is one of the classic defense mechanisms of the human brain.