Let's have a look at Munchausen syndrome by proxy. The modern psychology expresses the following. Emphasis are ours.
medlineplus.gov
Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a mental illness and a form of child abuse. The caretaker of a child, most often a mother, either makes up fake symptoms or causes real symptoms to make it look like the child is sick.
Causes
No one is sure what causes Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Sometimes, the person was abused as a child or has Munchausen syndrome (fake illness for themselves).
Symptoms
The caretaker can do extreme things to fake symptoms of illness in the child. For example, the caretaker may:
- Add blood to the child's urine or stool
- Withhold food so the child looks like they can't gain weight
- Heat up thermometers so it looks like the child has a fever
- Make up lab results
- Give the child drugs to make the child throw up or have diarrhea
- Infect an intravenous (IV) line to make the child sick
What are the signs in a caretaker?
- Most people with this problem are mothers with small children. Some are adult children taking care of an older parent.
- The caretakers often work in health care and know a lot about medical care. They can describe the child's symptoms in great medical detail. They like to be very involved with the health care team and are liked by the staff for the care they give the child.
- These caretakers are very involved with their children. They seem devoted to the child. This makes it hard for health professionals to see a diagnosis of Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
What are the signs in a child?
- The child sees a lot of health care providers and has been in the hospital a lot.
- The child often has had many tests, surgeries, or other procedures.
- The child has strange symptoms that don't fit with any disease. The symptoms do not match the test results.
- The child's symptoms are reported by the caretaker. They are never seen by health care professionals. The symptoms are gone in the hospital, but start again when the child goes home.
- Blood samples do not match the child's blood type.
- Drugs or chemicals are found in the child's urine, blood, or stool.
Exams and Tests
To diagnose Munchausen syndrome by proxy, providers have to see the clues. They have to review the child's medical record to see what has happened with the child over time. Very often, Munchausen syndrome by proxy goes undiagnosed.
Treatment
The child needs to be protected. They may need to be removed from the direct care of the caretaker in question.
Children may require medical care to treat complications from injuries, infections, medicines, surgeries, or tests. They also need psychiatric care to deal with depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder that can happen with child abuse.
Treatment most often involves individual and family therapy. Because this is a form of child abuse, the syndrome must be reported to the authorities.
Munchausen Paradigm
We all live within a Paradigm and experience a Paradigm Blindness. The paradigm induces a psychosis in its host (the person) through which the person sees the world. The psychosis also protects the paradigm so the host cannot see it. That's the blindness. Malevolent paradigms, such as a Narcissistic Paradigm have an ability to induce psychosis in other people. These people then become Flying Monkeys. The psychosis then explains why are narcissists so effective at exploitation. The context of all of the above is very important to understand in order to analyze Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.
In this syndrome, the caretaker is under a psychosis that the child is sick. And the psychosis is so strong that it actually infects the child so the child exhibits symptoms of sickness. The psychosis replicates itself onto the child. The induced sickness is not about attention seeking as the article above points out. The host literally needs the child, is devoted to the child, and sucks the metaphorical 'blood' out of the child. Its identity and existence is derived from the child. Attempt to remove the child from this person and you will see what happens.
And all of the above happens while (and we rephrase the article) the medical staff "likes the caretaker for the care it gives to the child" and that these "caretakers are very involved with their children. They seem devoted to the child.". The medical staff effectively becomes delusional themselves, complicit to the abuse, and thus become Flying Monkeys of the paradigm of the caretaker. All under the guise of protecting the child, while abusing it immensely. And this is exactly the intent of the Paradigm. Can the reader see how effective yet malevolent the paradigm is? How the hosts are mere tools of the paradigm? How they fool us and others, through psychosis, and thus achieve their objectives? And how the paradigm replicates itself onto the child? Right under the eyes of professionals, many times even psychologists. That's how effective it is.
Can the reader imagine, if e.g. divorced parents, the other parent attempts to point out the abuse here? It would backfire immediately that the parent is falsely accusing the caretaker parent. This caretaker is 'liked' by the medical staff, is seen as 'involved and devoted' to the child. The entire medical staff is under psychosis and going against the psychosis always backfires with vengeance. Article Why are narcissists so effective at exploitation explains this process in more detail.
Yet, even modern psychology describes this syndrome as a child abuse. Yet it is disguised as devotion and love of a child. And that it is "hard for health professionals to see a diagnosis". Professionals are not exempt from Paradigm Blindness. Professionals are the most dangerous and abusive if they become Flying Monkeys. Because they administer the treatment, enable the abuser, and attack anyone who attempts to point it out. Their license, their professional standing is what gives them immunity and authority to do abuse. Yet of course, they do not know what they are doing, as it is all under psychosis. It is Solzhenitsyn, in Gulag Archipelago, who said that "To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good". Under psychosis, any evil can be twisted into good. If the reader believes that comparing Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy to Russian labor camps where millions of people died is an exaggeration, reader is warned that malevolent paradigms that go unchecked, or are actually enabled, will have no problem killing people. And this minimizing that 'it cannot be that bad' is exactly what these paradigms exploit - Why are narcissists so effective at exploitation?
Ironically, the article identifies this syndrome as 'rare' but also states that 'very often, Munchausen syndrome by proxy goes undiagnosed.'. It goes undiagnosed because majority of professionals are Warriors of the Paradigm Blindness and no education and experience can change that. Only Healing can.
All Paradigms have a need to hide. From their hosts but also from others. Induced psychosis is what accomplishes it. And induced psychosis onto children actually replicates the paradigm onto the child.
Unless we HEAL, unless we fight our own Paradigm Blindness, we will NOT be resistant to psychosis of these paradigms. No education, no intellect helps here. Only Healing.