Obama and Munchausen’s Syndrome By Proxy

Pajamas Media ^ | June 22 | Rand Simberg

[AJKauf]

There is a peculiar and rare form of mental illness called Munchausen’s syndrome by proxy (MSBP). The afflicted is generally a parent, and in the vast majority of cases the biological mother.

But the person really afflicted is the child of the parent, because the syndrome causes the parent to make the child appear to be sick. In more extreme cases, the parent actually make the child sick by poison or other means, often to the point of killing it. (A famous example of it in popular culture is shown in the movie The Sixth Sense, in which a mother repeatedly gives poison to her child, who later provides video evidence of her slow murder from beyond the grave.)

Doctors are taught to watch for the syndrome in medical school. Among the signs are:

* Illness is multisystemic, prolonged, unusual, or rare. * Symptoms are inappropriate or incongruent. * Symptoms disappear when parent or caretaker is absent. * Parent is overly attached to the patient....

[OneWingedShark]

Will the American people diagnose the real problem better this time around and start to apply a cure in the fall of next year? Unfortunately, history teaches us that most of us don’t learn from history. Maybe we should send them to medical school instead.

lol - Good ending there.

[C210N]

The symptoms cited not only fit the national economy but GlobalWarmistism too.

Parent encourages medical staff to perform numerous tests and studies. - Check, with many GRANTS.

General health of the patient is inconsistent with results of laboratory tests. - Check, warming on other planets, cool since 2001, lack of sunspots.