The Controversial Disease with Illegal Symptoms

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Yeah my mom did that. Poisoned everything she fed me from 1-10. Caught her doing it and didn't eat anything that didn't come out of a can or vacuum sealed container until 13 when my dad got custody. Surprise surprise I stopped vomiting every other day.

I like the part where after she had 7 children die in her care the adoption agency was just like "here, try this one".

Imagine trying to beat some allegations and a doctor pulls up and diagnoses you with guilty syndrome

the craziest part of all of this to me, is the doctors trying to help. I went to the doctor for 2 years, with constant pain, and they did nothing. It really felt like they stopped believing me. Why is it always the people who don't need help, are believed, and the ones who do, are called liars?

Gipsy killing her mom “Dee Dee” and then the ashes being flushed down the toilet by Dee Dees parents is the kind of justice I wish we saw more in these cases

Munchausen by Proxy doesn't always involve death. My sister convinced the world that my nephew, who has poor eyesight, was blind. He took classes at our local sight center, had mostly blind friends and was told he would never ride a bike or drive a car. Today he drives and had strong glasses. He no longer speaks to her.

as a bone cancer survivor, the only thing that makes me more mad than somebody pretending to be chronically ill is somebody forcing their own family to become chronically ill

My mother did this to me and my siblings, but she was a doctor and nobody questioned it. She told everyone around us that we were "low-functioning" autistic, and that we had gotten it from being vaccinated as children. My youngest sibling was never vaccinated for ANYTHING as a result, and we were all subjected to bizarre fringe "cures" for autism that mostly involved chelation treatments that made us sick. She thrived on the sympathy she got for having to "endure" the hardship of raising two "low-functioning" children, and how we were "victims" of Mercury in our vaccines. When people would meet us for the first time when we were growing up they would get very confused and comment on how we were well-spoken/articulate and how smart and observant we were, which was not at all what they were expecting. This eventually led to people no longer believing her. She gave up after a few years, but I can only imagine what might have happened to us if she hadn't lost that sympathetic attention she craved.

very little pisses me off more than the fact gypsy is in prison for murder. i've said it before and i will say it for as long as i live: if all other options of escape have failed, it is self defense to kill your captor/abuser. if gypsy hadn't killed her mother, her mother would have slowly poisoned her to death and take the insurance money

The most disturbing part of the gypsy rose case is the doctors giving her chemotherapy when they had no proof she had cancer

I had crohn’s disease as a kid but no one advocated for my symptoms besides me and my mother. once I was finally diagnosed after 5 years, I had a flare up with ulcers a couple years later. instead of just giving me some simple tests, they put me and my mom in therapy because they thought she had MBP, automatically assuming we/she was lying even though I was literally already diagnosed. MBP definitely does happen but I think it unfortunately contributes to sexism in the medical field especially for kids who can’t speak up for themselves who only have mama bear on their side.

Watching this after Gypsy Rose is released adds a little bit more of a good ending for her story and I’m happy for her to start her life.

"Her own father flushed her ashes down the toilet." That's awful! How heartless do you have to be to not care about your toilet like that?!

What happened to Gypsy Rose was on par with someone being held hostage and tortured for over 18 years. Anyone in that situation would be completely justified in wanting to kill the person victimizing them.

I'm glad you spoke on the whole "diagnosis that implies guilt" bit. There are, right now, a bunch of families in I believe Pennsylvania who are fighting against a medical system, county, and specific doctor who has ruined their lives by diagnosing them with MBP/child abuse, without even talking to them! All they had to do is bring their child to the emergency room-for ANYTHING- and their lives are completely destroyed. A majority of these families seem to be ones with "medically complicated" children, or children proven by several medical professionals to actually have chronic illnesses. These children are denied necessary health care, torn from their families, and in worst case scenarios their family never sees them again and/or someone dies. MBP is a highly dangerous diagnosis, just not for the reason a lot of people think, and I cannot appreciate enough how you went into the nuances of it.

When I was 19, I was diagnosed with a chronic illness. During one of my hospital stays a few years ago, one of the nurses taking care of me approached one of my doctors and stated that she believed my mother had MBP and was making me sick because of how much she knew about my medical history, how attentive she was to me and how my mother was my only visitor. It took so much to prove that my mother knew so much about my medical history and spoke to the doctors about it because I have Autism and Anxiety disorder, so it's hard for me to advocate for myself, so my mother would step in where I was afraid to.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard looks so so much healthier now, and knowing the American prison system, I think it says a lot about how much damage DeeDee was doing to her health

Doctors believed my mother had MBP when I was a baby, I was 13 pounds at a year old. They kept telling her she was over reacting or attention seeking. Mainly because she did a lot of research as a pre med student, and kept insisting it was this very specific heart defect, and she even pointed out all the various symptoms I was showing, and eventually built a family tree showing all the various deaths during infancy due to heart defects in our family tree lmaoooo. Lol turned out I had that extremely rare heart condition, and was actually the first infant to have the specific surgery I had done, the film they took of the surgery is still shown in surgical classes and labs today!!

If we're being real, Gypsy probably would have had a lethal "medical emergency" the week before her "18th" (22nd) birthday, she shouldn't have spent a day in a jail cell.