🤝 Community Munchausen's by Internet (Malingerers, Munchies, Spoonies, etc) - Feigning Illnesses for Attention

[large_farva]

DPMIW posted a miserable video of her bringing her dog to the petstore and bitches throughout.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TiqdvmoTZWE

Spoiler: ARCHIVE 12.20.2020 | Petco Customers Distracting Service Dog

12.20.2020 _ Petco Customers Distracting Service Dog-TiqdvmoTZWE.mp4

I like how she stole the logo from the place she got her other dog


She says she went there for "Idk some dog treats or something" - so the purpose of going was??? Just attention, that's what I thought.
The dog is so easily distracted by everything, even Nikki admits the dog "tilts her head whenever someone talks to her" - yeah, totally a service dog trait.
The squeak toy thing was annoying but it's a pet store and people are gonna people. Think of the employees who have to hear those things all fucking day.

It did dawn me after KFS mentioned it how highly unusual it is to have a service dog for anxiety and take the dog everywhere with you. Especially with Nikki/ HalfmoonHuskies she seems to have problems every time she leaves the house with her dog. This seems to only cause her more anxiety. And her trips out aren't even purposeful, she's leisurely browsing the shop as she records, basically looking for trouble. A squeak toy was enough to set her off because it distracted her not a service dog.

I think she needs DBT more than a service dog. Maybe the dog would be more helpful if Nikki got some skills training herself.

and the back molars are all fillings, some fillings are composite and some are the shiny metal robot teeth. It can be caused by purging.

eta:

adding albuterol / nebulizer for her "MCAS"

 

[griftinsincebeengriftin]

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Bee is now claiming her unspecified degenerative neurological disorder was a misdiagnosis and it is now an unspecified progressive something? Lol because this all makes sense.
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I’m told my someone more knowledgeable than me that this is an invacare action 2 wheelchair. A wheelchair the NHS use as a placeholder, apparently very hard to manoeuvre and very clunky. Very questioning she’s managing so well with it considering this is supposed to be a miracle new found ability.
Also want to point out the adult nappies in the background.

For some reason I can’t see the video in your post, but that “misdiagnosis” story was posted in direct response to someone calling her out in the comments of her post about finally being able to self propel in her wheelchair. The Grandpa Joe jumping out of bed moment is coming. I can feel it.

 

[klingonbling]

So I follow this thread a bit, and I was wondering something that maybe someone could answer,

Why do all these people have huskies? Huskies are a bitch to train at the best of times, but all these idiots have huskies as their super duper specially self trained service dogs.

This. I get the golden and poodle, but huskies are stubborn motherfuckers and are horrid service animals unless you've got incredible patience.
How do these combos even work in public

 

[A Detachable Penis]

For some reason I can’t see the video in your post, but that “misdiagnosis” story was posted in direct response to someone calling her out in the comments of her post about finally being able to self propel in her wheelchair. The Grandpa Joe jumping out of bed moment is coming. I can feel it.

God, she's such bullshit.

We discover disorders on the daily nowadays, often just giving them names after the genetics causing them. But she's oh so speshul she can never name this mythical disorder she's got.

 

[Dr. Celery MD]

Imagine this: you're a young, chronically ill person from Denver who finally finds a therapist with openings- and she herself is chronically ill! Awesome, right?


And then you find out your somatic therapist is none other than Mairead aka ChronicZebra! We don't talk about her much on the farms, so for those not familiar, she's always very ill during the week (often requiring a wheelchair) and then can miraculously climb mountains on the weekends.

That's right folks, she's a full-fledged therapist now, running her own telehealth clinic, Rise Wellness Center.


What exactly does a somatic therapist do?

Jesus christ, seems like the perfect fit for a munchie.

 

[Potato Cat]

Imagine this: you're a young, chronically ill person from Denver who finally finds a therapist with openings- and she herself is chronically ill! Awesome, right?

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And then you find out your somatic therapist is none other than Mairead aka ChronicZebra! We don't talk about her much on the farms, so for those not familiar, she's always very ill during the week (often requiring a wheelchair) and then can miraculously climb mountains on the weekends.

That's right folks, she's a full-fledged therapist now, running her own telehealth clinic, Rise Wellness Center.
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What exactly does a somatic therapist do?
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Jesus christ, seems like the perfect fit for a munchie.

I'd love to see her team up with Chronically Court. They could trade munchie tips.

 

[heavycream]

God, she's such bullshit.

We discover disorders on the daily nowadays, often just giving them names after the genetics causing them. But she's oh so speshul she can never name this mythical disorder she's got.

Most "progressive neurological disorders" have a very well known name/category, actually. It's called dementia.

 

[TheCakeIsALie]

Most "progressive neurological disorders" have a very well known name/category, actually. It's called dementia.

well there is also ALS, Huntington’s, MS, Parkinson’s, SMA, Friedrichs Ataxia, etc. I once had a client with Bensons Syndrome (aka PCA) and then one or two with Lewy body. It can be very disturbing, and obviously this munchie has no idea what it is like having any of these disorders. The saddest case was a guy who had a
Alzheimer’s and then a cancerous brain tumor on top of it.

 

[heavycream]

well there is also ALS, Huntington’s, MS, Parkinson’s, SMA, Friedrichs Ataxia, etc. I once had a client with Bensons Syndrome (aka PCA) and then one or two with Lewy body. It can be very disturbing, and obviously this munchie has no idea what it is like having any of these disorders. The saddest case was a guy who had a
Alzheimer’s and then a cancerous brain tumor on top of it.

Parkinsons and types of PCA (Posterior cortical atrophy) are considered a kind of dementia.
Not to be pedantic, but in my experience, any neurological condition that involves gradual loss of brain tissues is a dementia. And in all of those cases, patients do experience cognitive symptoms associated with the classical (well known) dementias as their disease progresses. Whether or not it's useful to use that word to refer to ALS and MS is debatable. But ultimately, the munch would expect any number of behavioural/psychological symptoms associated with dementia in time if they really had it.

 

[TheCakeIsALie]

Parkinsons and types of PCA (Posterior cortical atrophy) are considered a kind of dementia.
Not to be pedantic, but in my experience, any neurological condition that involves gradual loss of brain tissues is a dementia. And in all of those cases, patients do experience cognitive symptoms associated with the classical (well known) dementias as their disease progresses. Whether or not it's useful to use that word to refer to ALS and MS is debatable. But ultimately, the munch would expect any number of behavioural/psychological symptoms associated with dementia in time if they really had it.

That is exactly my point. I work with these populations all day, every day. People think alz or dementia just means memory loss, when in reality there are many other issues at play. Memory loss is only a small part of it. I work with all stages too so I see people who have just been diagnosed to people who are so bad off they need a care facility. It is very cruel and pisses me off that munchies try to appropriate it. They have never seen the true reality of these diseases like losing all your speech, letting a pet out that isnt supposed to be an outdoor animal (had someone let the family ferret out into the yard), hallucinating dead or live people. Like this one guy, we were all sitting calmly doing puzzles in groups when a guy starts full on screaming because he hallucinated. And you cant reason with them.

I had another client get very angry over the game hangman we were playing. He found it offensive and thought we were trying to hang a literal person.

 

[JanuaryViolet]

What exactly does a somatic therapist do?

Therapist, heal thyself.

 

[griftinsincebeengriftin]

well there is also ALS, Huntington’s, MS, Parkinson’s, SMA, Friedrichs Ataxia, etc. I once had a client with Bensons Syndrome (aka PCA) and then one or two with Lewy body. It can be very disturbing, and obviously this munchie has no idea what it is like having any of these disorders. The saddest case was a guy who had a
Alzheimer’s and then a cancerous brain tumor on top of it.

well please don’t try to understand Bee’s progressive/degenerative mystery disorder. She’s very complex, okay?

 

[TheCakeIsALie]

Very complex, aka fake. Red flag when people say "worst case my dr had seen" or "it's too complex to explain.."

 

[A Detachable Penis]

Most "progressive neurological disorders" have a very well known name/category, actually. It's called dementia.

Yeah, I was thinking chromosome dels which often just get named what the dels are.

Point was more that we find disorders all the time cause sequencing is cheap as dirt, fast, and accurate. Rare diseases may be rare, but we can oft find the cause.

 

[FeatherPlucker]

What does she expect in terms of the public interacting with her dog?
She allows human beings dressed up as Disney characters to interact with her dog in public, so the dog itself is "open" or "receptive" to attention from strangers.

How is it that she is able to draw SSDI? She COULD work. This is absolute SSDI abuse. Period. End of Story.

Probably some Medicare fraud, too. She must have Medicare for her hospital stays, which means she has the same medical coverage as many people over the age of 65.
She can't bounce from FL to PA hospitals with medicaid as medicaid plans usually force people to stay within one state or county for their medical care. Medicare, on the other hand, is accepted virtually everywhere in the US.

 

[Behavioral Sink]

Is jessi a kellgren-fozard a munchie

I've wondered about her. I'd love to do a deep dive, but I can't stand her weird 1950s tv housewife affect. The idea of putting myself through that much of her content is unappealing, especially if there's nothing there in the end. But if someone else did the work, I'd be interested in a synopsis of her medical history. She seems a bit over the top.

 

[unwieldy_object]

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Bee is now claiming her unspecified degenerative neurological disorder was a misdiagnosis and it is now an unspecified progressive something? Lol because this all makes sense.
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I’m told my someone more knowledgeable than me that this is an invacare action 2 wheelchair. A wheelchair the NHS use as a placeholder, apparently very hard to manoeuvre and very clunky. Very questionable that she’s managing so well with it considering this is supposed to be a miracle new found ability.
Also want to point out the adult nappies in the background.

That's hilarious, those wheelchairs weigh a metric shit ton and yes they are used mostly for geriatric patients who may overturn a lighter chair and ironically it just shows that Bee is not quite as weak as she's trying to portray herself.
They are really heavy to self propel due to stability and being made for someone else to push.

 

[LabRat321]

I really get confused by this, but aren’t ALL pets emotional support animals? That’s why I have mine. With few exceptions, that’s what they do. I usually have cats, who are assholes at doing their job sometimes, but that is still the job. It’s why I feed them and clean up their shit, etc, because when I have had a bad day, I want to come home to a nice warm welcome.

That doesn’t mean I get to inflict them as an inconvenience only everyone else.

Okay, so, my cat was considered an ESA for me when I got him years ago and I did a lot of resesrch into the laws at the time. My current place allows pets so I didn't bother to get an updated letter.

Service animals are protected under the ADA. They have to be trained to do a task.

Emotional support animals are a disability accommodation not under the ADA but under the Fair Housing Act, which falls under the Office of Housing and Urban Development, and for flying the Air Carrier Access Act (though I know less about the legal details for that one)

The basic premise of an emotional support animal is that if you have a disability and having the animal would alleviate some of the symptoms of the disability then being allowed to have the animal is a reasonable accommodation for making full use of the residence, and this means they cannot be excluded by "no pets" policies or charged extra fees in residences where the Fair Housing Act applies, which is most of them.
All the "register your animal as an ESA" stuff is bullshit. There's no formal registration required. The only documentation required is a letter from your heath provider treating you saying that you have a disability and that having the animal alleviates X symptom.

Emotional support animals are more about what having the animal does for the person, and less about what the animal does. They have no special training.

If "coming home to a nice warm welcome" is just something you would like to have then it's not a disability accommodation. If you have a mental disorder that affects your ability to live and function normally and "coming home to a nice warm welcome" provides some relief of the symptoms of that disorder then it is a disability accommodation.

 

[Come]

Okay, so, my cat was considered an ESA for me when I got him years ago and I did a lot of resesrch into the laws at the time. My current place allows pets so I didn't bother to get an updated letter.

Service animals are protected under the ADA. They have to be trained to do a task.

Emotional support animals are a disability accommodation not under the ADA but under the Fair Housing Act, which falls under the Office of Housing and Urban Development, and for flying the Air Carrier Access Act (though I know less about the legal details for that one)

The basic premise of an emotional support animal is that if you have a disability and having the animal would alleviate some of the symptoms of the disability then being allowed to have the animal is a reasonable accommodation for making full use of the residence, and this means they cannot be excluded by "no pets" policies or charged extra fees in residences where the Fair Housing Act applies, which is most of them.
All the "register your animal as an ESA" stuff is bullshit. There's no formal registration required. The only documentation required is a letter from your heath provider treating you saying that you have a disability and that having the animal alleviates X symptom.

Emotional support animals are more about what having the animal does for the person, and less about what the animal does. They have no special training.

If "coming home to a nice warm welcome" is just something you would like to have then it's not a disability accommodation. If you have a mental disorder that affects your ability to live and function normally and "coming home to a nice warm welcome" provides some relief of the symptoms of that disorder then it is a disability accommodation.

It's unfortunate that so many masters level therapists are willing to write any note a client asks for. A doctor would never put their name on a document claiming you're disabled without months of proof. But a LCPC or LCSW is quick to do it, knowing their boards aren't likely to ever investigate such things.

 

[LabRat321]

It's unfortunate that so many masters level therapists are willing to write any note a client asks for. A doctor would never put their name on a document claiming you're disabled without months of proof. But a LCPC or LCSW is quick to do it, knowing their boards aren't likely to ever investigate such things.

Well it could be psychiatrists who are MDs, psychiatric nurse practitioners, psychologists who are PsyDs or PhDs (in most states, a few states will license psychologists with Master's degrees), or LCSWs/LMFTs/LPCs with Master's degrees.

I could imagine a reputable provider doing it without having personally seen the person for months if the person has a documented history.
The requirement for what is considered disabled in this instance doesn't require the same degree of impairment as, say, being eligible to receive social security benefits. It is just "a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities."

For flying but not for housing there is the requirement that the person writing the letter currently be providing treatment to the person for whom they're writing the letter, which I have mixed feelings about.
Not everyone with serious mental illness needs to be in therapy or seeing a psychiatrist. There's not really a point in regularly seeing a psychiatrist if you've already been diagnosed, your symptoms are consistent, and you're not on meds. Therapy is expensive, not helpful for everyone, can do more harm than good at times, and tends to have diminishing returns for a lot things.

Requiring a person to be regularly seeing a provider to receive an accommodation excludes a lot of people for whom that accommodation would be a reasonable accommodation serving its intended function.

That being said, the online services where you pay them $100 to talk to a mental health professional specifically for them to give you a letter are total bullshit. However that doesn't mean everyone who elects to use those services is. It's a lot more convenient, easy, and accessible than other options.