Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

 

                                 Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy

Munchausen’s Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP) is a mental illness in which the sufferer fantasizes that others–usually people in their charge, such as children–are suffering from serious illness and require drastic medical intervention.

Pirong argues that the West's leadership is suffering from MSbP as evidenced by their behavior toward Covid 19.

The obsession with Covid-19 has the monomaniacal focus on “cases” (usually the result of hypersensitive tests prone to false positives), with the belief that people who test positive are sick, and huge numbers of those who become sick will die.

Given the actual experience over the last several months, these beliefs are wildly exaggerated–imaginary, fantasized illnesses, with fantasized severity, just the kind of thing that a sufferer of MSbP does.

And there’s more to the diagnosis. MSbP sufferers subject the people whom they imagine are ill with suffocating attention and unnecessary, and often harmful, health-related interventions. You know, like lockdowns; draconian restrictions on movement, social contact, and other features of everyday life; the shutting down of schools and colleges; and strident demands to wear masks–even between bites of your meal if you are in California.

This distinction between diagnosis and illness is a growing, important concept.