In terms of the girl who didn’t eat because she didn’t want to go to school, there was most likely something going on. People don’t just not eat because they don’t want to go to school. The was probably EXTREMELY stressed or was being severely bullied, and those are issues. They should have had a social worker come in.
I did this but my mother never even realized I wasn’t eating. 😒 Then she’d just tell me to “kill them with kindness” but never explained what that meant or how to do it.
Nice to know they're are people who can see bullying and that sadly nothing had changed since the 90s as far as schools allowing bullying. I once had a migraine for a full week but since a doctor couldn't find anything wrong my parents forced me to return to school, the bullying got worse and so did the migraine until I fainted. I just stopped going and would walk around town all day until the school caked my mother, as punishment I was sent to a boarding school where bullies were expelled and their parents not given a refund, headache went away.
I’ve seen more kids completely just not want to go to school other than it being an inconvenience. One of my classmates dropped out 2 months before graduation because they didn’t want to wake up in the morning anymore (18 going on 19 that summer with half a dozen siblings and nieces/nephews actively enrolled so their parents kinda quit trying). If this was a primary schooler, I doubt they’d be that committed to the act just to avoid school. That said, a week absent would only draw attention when she returned I would think. Maybe some kind of event that week she didn’t want to participate in
@@RunnyBabbitMomthat’s the best thing I possibly read this decade. Can’t stand a bully, even more so when there’s a group and the school won’t do anything. Hearing about a school that expels bullies and won’t refund parents needs to be standard. I’m glad both your headache and bully troubles went away and I’m sorry you had to deal with it to begin with
I had a nurse in the ER ask me, if I always go to the ER for stomach pains... I told him, if it's worse than any pain ever, yes. I got admitted overnight, next day they operated. During the operation they confirm I had appendicitis. It's almost as if I know my body and how much pain is normal... And wanting to spew from pain is not normal for my body.
Someone really needs to check on that girl who wouldn't eat because she didn't want to go to school. That's EXTREME avoidance behavior. I hope there was some follow-up about why she's so anxious or hates school that much. I understand that sometimes kids really do just dislike school and are never going to be totally happy there, but for your anxiety/hate to override a basic human survival instinct is usually indicative of something bigger going on.
Currently at this very moment not wanting to eat because my Major Depressive Disorder is really bad right now. I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder too. That girl has definitely got to be going through something huge and I hope wherever she is she gets the help she needs. (I'm a work in progress who's in treatment.)
As a retired nurse, my best friend was always being "sick". On one of her trips to the ER she gave the doctor her symptoms of stomach pain that matched what I had told her before of having appendicitis. They were all set to admit her for surgery until I reminded her, she had already had it removed a couple of years ago.
I had to go to the emergency room for an injury two months ago. They didn’t do much, put me on some muscle relaxers, had me try walking around, but I was in extreme pain when they tried having me go up some stairs. The PT basically told me it’s mostly in my head. Since I live in a house with a lot of stairs, I spent the night at my parents’ rambler. The next morning I was in so much pain that I couldn’t sit up. I tried multiple times to stand so my mom could take me back to the ER, and we ended up calling an ambulance to help me get into a vehicle. Long story short, we went to a different ER which was closer to my parents. They treated me like I was seeking drugs and even sent in a social worker to see if I needed food or shelter. It was both humiliating and frustrating that they wouldn’t take my pain seriously and I ended up leaving still in extreme pain. Seeing this video makes me understand it better (still not okay) and hate the fact that people who try this crap are making it so much harder for the rest of us who truly need help.
Doctors aren't supposed to evaluate patients based on what psychosocial shit has happened with other patients. Not that they can't notice trends, but they aren't supposed to universally decide "ER patient in pain always wants drugs". They're supposed to evaluate them on the patients actual symptoms and signs. So there isn't a reason for drug seeking losers to affect how genuinely ill patients are treated.
I've had similar injures myself and pretty much every time I've presented to the ER I've been treated as a drug seeker. I have seizures and I hEDS the last time I presented to the ER I had dislocated my shoulder normally I just keep on going but this HURT, quite obviously might I mention that my shoulder was FUBAR , the swelling was visible to even an untrained eye. The first nurse I saw triage nurse if I remember right was kind and treated me well. THE MOMENT I'm in the trauma bay, what are you here for, your shoulder went out after a seizure hmm i don't think so, what you're allergic to ibuprofen , hey have this shot of something similar and don't complain. I have a ridiculously high pain tolerance and have had to relocate dislocations on my own hundreds of times before so frankly I'm used to pain now, they X-ray my shoulder and say it's back in and that I'm fine because I'm not crying or showing signs of pain mind you I'm very dissociated at this point and barely know where I am and they didn't let me have my mum with me for this exact reason , on my medical paper work it says my mum is supposed to be with me unless being operated on or being x-rayed, in a MRI or reviving a CT scan. Dislocations you are meant to have an ultra sound to see if the muscles haven't been damaged or a nerve has been pinched. A week later I see my GP, I have muscle damage and need to wear a sling 24/7 for a month... I HATE people who fake pain/ injures or just want a quick fix and think they can fuck with the system. People like that make people in need of medical assistance hesitant because we get treated like absolute shit and fucked around for simple check ups or an actual emergency. It took my mum 10 years to find a doctor who would actually look at her and her symptoms and treat her like a human and treat her illnesses as well as my own.
This is especially infuriating since US pharma bred this. Maybe you can reconcile with the fact that at least two stories here were about actually sick people who turned out to need psychological treatment.
I got pretty jealous when my sister got glasses. I considered bombing my eye exam so that I could get them, but eventually decided that that was stupid. When I took the test, I realized that I actually needed glasses. I had thought blurry vision at a distance of ten feet was normal. At least I got my wish and can also see better now.
Same. I hadnt noticed anything but my sister got glasses. So i started on the i also can't see bandwagon. i was truthful on my exam though and lo and behold, i actually am nearsighted.
2:33 no thats not true, the reflex vision and the active vision are two different brain parts, the active one can be destroyed but the reflex will still work. As long as the eyes themselves work. You can throw something at a blind person and that person possibly catches or dodges it, even though they don't know why. Reflexes are subconscious, you do them before you realize, thats pretty interesting, especially since paralyzed people can in some cases reflex their "disconnected" body parts. Btw one reason a person that is paralysed from the neck down can still digest stuff, even though its in the area that shouldn't be doing stuff. Heart is a different story as well, its basically functioning on its own by rhythmically pulsing, there is no brain activity involved and no spinal Reflex either, wich is one of the reasons why a heart still beats when you take it out of a fresh corpse.
He's referring more to the people faking total blindness, which is definitely something people wanna fake for some reason. Like he said, it wouldn't work for a multitude of different reasons, but you could definitely use it to out someone faking total blindness.
I’m horrified. Just…why? I have a traumatic brain injury from birth…doctor error. No one would diagnose it until a week after my 18th birthday (could no longer sue). I spent most of my childhood being accused of “faking it” as TBIs vary differently in each person and mine got worse with the onset of puberty (can happen). I was sent to multiple psychiatrists who all said it was physical not mental. Still, I was accused and doubted. My parents were accused of Munchousen by Proxy and were evaluated (they were cleared). I was told that to fix the fact I couldn’t walk I just needed to play tennis and run around the block, that my arms would move right if I just let them, and the headaches would stop if I did something constructive. I cannot adequately express the trauma this left me with. I spent years doubting myself and wondering if I actually was faking and didn’t know it. Took a long time to accept that some TBIs have up and down days and it’s ok if I one day I can stand and the next I can’t. Why anyone would fake an illness is beyond me completely.
Not a doctor but retired Nurse. Had a couple that had been banned from all the ER's in the area. The couple was divorced, but the ex wife was still obsessed with the ex husbnd. The ex husband would come to the ER drug seeking. To be on the safe side, he would get admitted. Whenever he got admitted, all of the sudden , the ex wife would get admitted for an injury or illness and end up on the same floor, so she could be on the same floor as him.
14:45 - Story 17: Not freaking out about something doesn't automatically mean they aren't concerned. I was partially paralyzed because of a spine issue just last summer and had to get surgery. But I wasn't freaking out about it because I knew it wouldn't help. That doesn't mean i wasn't incredibly scared
I can tell the exact opposite. I was the patient and the nurses and staff thought I was drug seeking. I had had a brain tumor removed a week prior and was released from the hospital after 4 days. 2 days later surgically induced migraines starts. I’ve had migraines since I was four and never want to experience the pain I’ve felt with this migraine. Went to my er and they were great and got in contact with my surgeon who was at the hospital 3 hours away. I had been given pain meds and felt I was fine to go with my parents to the other hospital and not in an ambulance. By the time we got there the pain meds wore off. I tried not to make loud screams and keep myself quiet because I know how loud I was in pain and I’m just concerned about others. Well the nurses left me in the waiting room for at least an hour even when they had been told and warned I would be coming and to take me back immediately and my surgeon had a plan in place. They thought I was a drug seeker. After hours of no pain relief, wouldn’t even give my prescription migraine meds, we finally got a hold of the doctor. He was furious. With 30 mins of starting the treatment the pain was almost gone. When we came back a week later for post op and another scan we let him know what happened. Many nurses got fired for malpractice and refusing to attempt to call the doctor. Gave no pain meds. Left me alone in a room for hours screaming in pain because I was clearly faking it, after having brain surgery! My surgeon was pissed! After we left he found out exactly who was a part of my “care” and we had given names. They are gone. I understand people will try anything for pain meds. But when the surgeon has given detailed instructions, told the er that I would be coming in, and I had just had a brain surgery, you would think they would look more deeply into if it’s real or not. You can’t fake heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels.
Similar experience here. My local hospital thought I was a drug seeker (due to the area I'm in though I have zero record or signs of that personally) and no obvious cause of pain. Sent me home on three separate occasions. I just gave up, but luckily I still lived at home and my Aunt was is an ex-nurse. She examined me, took me to the hospital (even though I initially refused) and demanded I be seen again. They then accused me of taking something as my liver showed signs of failing, but I had not. Turned out I had blood poisoning from an internal abscess they miss-diagnosed and my organs had started shutting down. I probably would have been dead in the next 24 hours. Shame you can't sue in Australia for that. I did get a meeting held though as this was a huge stuff up that could have lead to loss of life. They've screwed me over several other times since then, so now I travel to a different hospital.
Same here. I have chronic migraines. It’s been 30 years as of now. This was about 15 years ago. I had a migraine and it was getting worse by the minute. I went to my neurologist office and he sent me to the ER I told him I didn’t want to go because they won’t treat me and would even leave me in the waiting room when there weren’t any other patients there. Said to my that I was only there for drugs. He called ahead and told them that he would be sending me for them to treat me ASAP . Not to be told how to treat me or maybe to prove I was faking they set me up with a spinal tap. I don’t know why I would need it or how it would show I was lying. As they were doing the test the nurse ( the one that was always nasty to me) asked if it was painful. I said I told you I have a horrible migraine and this is nothing. After that they treated me kindly and believed me. Because of people faking it for drugs they have become so suspicious of people that it has affected their judgment and they refuse to relieve pain. So sad
I have petit mail but occasionally have a grand mahl. Your right. A college age boy came in and we later found out he didn't want to take his exam, he faked a grand mahl, even banging his head and knees on the metal table to "prove" it was real. Just disgusting.
@@MistySartin ouch ... I had bruises too one time when I fell down in the bathroom ... no fun at all. I saw stars after I woke up again ... I was so scared about that.
I had passed out and called 911. I was having difficulty breathing, doctor said “you have CHF and are in fluid overload. We can’t help you. Two days later, different hospital diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. Good thing I went somewhere else.
A diagnosis of CHF with fluid overload manifesting as respiratory distress should have gotten you admitted, even if it turned out you had something else (which they would have likely discovered with routine treatment and exams for CHF exacerbation).
I think the guy who 'pretended' to be unconscious and breathed out saying 'breathe' might have been high or in some psychosis. Breathing with verbal effects is not normal for someone his age, even in a 'faking an illness in a very dumb way' scenario.
17:34 hypochondriac here! im not 100% sure bc im not a medical professional (obviously), but from what I know hypochondriacs are generally so afraid of being sick that we go into denial and refuse medical help bc we "can't be sick!" also not that hypochondriacs and germaphobes are NOT the same thing, even though one person can have both, they are generally separate.
Yes, but I think she would start experiencing symptoms as the embryo would grow. It's usually not like someone's asymptomatic for a whole lot of time and then they suddenly die of ectopic pregnancy. She would have some pains before it was too late. But of course there are surely people who die from it because they either dismiss their symptoms or the symptoms are not extreme enough for them to go to a hospital.
@@ameliab324it might have been her believing that she had period pains before she learned she was pregnant…sometimes it happens to women and she might have not known for another month when her next period missed
i'm late to the party here but i can give my own experience of i guess the opposite of this. 8 months ago my vision deteriorated without any clear cause. I can now only see shapes and colours and have severe light sensitivity. I have been passed from department to department with no clear answers and there have been implications that i am faking, i have even been reviewed by the psych team with them saying there is no disorder of the mind. I hate people that fake things like this because it makes unusual cases like mine so much less likely to be believed and therefore makes diagnosis and treatment so much harder to access and obtain. Sorry for the rant this sort of behaviour just pisses me off.
I used to go to a Goth club with a friend who loved to pretend to “get the sprit” and pretend to pass out dramatically. More than a few times, the bouncers came and told her if she didn’t wake up they were calling the paramedics. She “awoke” miraculously every time.
A common trick rich housewives in India use. Hyperventilating after an argument or doing a fuk up Then asked to be taken to hospital My cousin is doctor He noticed this lady who was a frequent visitor, this is a charitable hospital which is always crowded and she would waste a lot of time because she was craving attention and trying to show her family how they have wronged her This time my cousin decided to insert iv needle and "discussed loudly " on connecting a feeding tube via her nose. She felt better within seconds
The additional commentary added around 12:30 are unnecessary. That's what psychosis is. A mental lapse in judgement so extreme it borders psychotic tendencies the individual hasn't shown before. A break of reality due to stress, if you will. That's why it's called psychosis. No need to rag on something anyone can experience at random and especially since she was already diagnosed and got help.
Agreed someone can be an upstanding citizen and experience this. My friend had postpartum psychosis and thought her 2nd baby was a demon. Voices in her head were telling her the baby was going to kill her family. After getting inpatient treatment she was fine and able to raise her kids in a healthy environment for everyone
"at random": That's a foolish thing only bad doctors would say. There is always a cause and always a reason why it happens when it happens and why this is what happens. A good doctors job, after relieving dangerous or very painful symptoms, is to find those reasons so that the problem can be fixed. Most doctors just don't care. A good doctor should see themselves as an health engineer, not as some tinkerer adding some tape to plug a leak.
He was very respectful so not sure how you got ragging from that. It’s extra information provided on the post so he added it… why are you taking this personally?😂
@@ZomBeeQueeen I suppose it's my post you are referring to? Because these doctors claiming to care for their patients are killing us. They are making us more sick, and they rarely ever actually do any of good to their patients. They even promote fake medicine to give to healthy people to poison them so that they start consuming more fake medicine. They are violating their oath several times a day. And they don't even realize it, because they are just brainwashed hard enough to become incapable to see what they are actually doing. And they are so arrogant on top of it; nearly all of them. And they have a monopoly over most treatments on top of it all. I know: my various health problems started to get better only once I started finding ways to treat myself through searching information elsewhere and experimenting with an open mind. Do you know what happen when you have a chronic problem? They give you something that supposed to cure you. When it doesn't, you know what they do? They just give you more of the shit that doesn't work. Sometimes years on end. Happened to me for 3 unrelated troubles. TH-cam is a better healer than any doctor I ever met, and I consulted a lot of them. It helped cure myself of two "incurable life-time" sicknesses and a few they refused to even acknowledge once they found they did not know any treatment to them, all of my allergies a good number of phobias. Most of this using things as cheap as vitamin C or identifying common poisons in my environment or food and getting away from them or reading books from doctors who actually know their stuff. So, sure, they actually know how to treat some very important things like a setting a broken bone or how to clean and suture a wound. But for most things, they are more than incompetent: they are destructive and deadly.
@@ZomBeeQueeenhe used an entirely wrong and far worse mental health term that’s nothing like the situation she suffered, it’s a horrible thing to call someone especially based on his ignorance
3:36 And in Reddit/lawyers was the case of the disabled woman who the investigators took photos of doing all sorts of activities outside the home instead of being bedridden as claimed. First witness for the disabled woman? Her identical twin sister who had moved in to care for her disabled sister. Oops. 😂
The jumping jacks trick they pulled on my little cousin and sent him home. His appendix had burst. Of course he wasn’t 12 going in asking for oxys but if they hadn’t taken him to a second ER an hour away he could of died because he could do jumping jacks so they considered him fine. He was in the child ICU for over a week.
@@Jenna2k tbh if my cousins mom sued she would of wasted all the money anyways. Maybe they would make her put it away for my cousin but god knows she would try and manipulate him into giving her it all. He’s still a minor and doesn’t even live with the family because she burns every bridge she has. Rn she’s living in someone’s garage using a bucket as a bathroom with her dog that she found more important than my cousin.
And then there’s my mom and I who go to the doctor and they end up saying “how are you dealing with this for so long?” All we say is “fibromyalgia” and they go oh. Oh my. 😂😂😂
Not a Doctor, am a retired medical ASL interpreter. I was talking with an energetic mid-30's Deaf man with no deficits in his mobility or use of his left hand/arm. We get to the exam room and his left hand turns into a claw just before the Dr. walks in, he begins to have full arm spasms. The doctor observes him, asks if the muscle spasms/pain has returned. He winces, nods, and the doctor writes 3 prescription, the man goes to in-hospital pharmacy, fills them. On his way to his car, he takes 2 pain meds and and leaves with no spasms present.
Good doctor. Better to let people who don't need pain meds have them than to risk innocent people who need them suffering. He would have just got the same thing on the street anyway.
I thought I was faking... I had a truck run over my foot but initially my brain registered it as "sprained ankle" pain. I didn't understand why I was screaming and crying in the street instead of just getting up, and why the lady (with a first aid diploma) told me to stay down. Some guy came up to me and tried to calm me down by saying nothing was wrong with my leg. Turns out my foot was crushed by the truck, I nearly lost it, and I still suffer from the after effects nearly a decade layer. I also consistently refused to call it a 10 even if in hindsight it was unimaginable to the point I was closer to a 12 🙃 (I ended up with a morphine IV with one of the self administering pumps and underdosing... Which is bad for long term nerve pain as there's a correlation between pain control within 24 hrs and long term nerve pain!).
Reminds me of the time I broke my toe but was convinced it was just sprained and didn't go to the doctor until it was mostly healed (and wonky of course)
13:42 the focus on the fact that none of the family knew in order to come and visit suggests to me that perhaps a medical emergency was the only thing that could draw her family away from their own lives for long enough to come see her, and she perhaps didn't see them otherwise. which is honestly really sad if that's the case, and while it's not a good idea, I can kinda see why she might find benefit from doing that.
Peripartum psychosis. This would have taken like 20 seconds of Googling for you to discover before you acted like she was potentially a threat for life.
The girl who faked needing glasses... someone should've explained to her that you can get glasses with plain glass lenses that don't actually affect your vision at all lol
As a retired respiratory therapist, I’ve seen people fake seizures while yelling “I’m having a seizure!” Another time we had an ER patient who was unresponsive, but the doctor was suspicious. He lifted the patient’s head off the pillow and quickly removed his hand. There was a lag between removing his hand and the patient’s head dropping back to the pillow, which indicated that the patient was not unresponsive. The doctor mouthed “you can leave” to me.
Pregnancy can cause imbalance of hormones and lead to mental instability both before and after pregnancy - luckily mental health professionals are getting better at recognizing it
Last story: classic Münchausen syndrome. At least it wasn’t by proxy. Faking illness for attention seeking is bad enough, but faking/inducing illness in your children to get that attention? Despicable.
Story 2 lol I hated when my vision declined because of all the media of “nerds” and “ugly” people wearing glasses and I was scared of being bullied and looking weird. I brought my glasses to school but only ever wore them to read the board; I didn’t want anyone to see me with them on. The entire time I wore glasses literally no one cared. Felt better about wearing them since no one ever cared about it. I still think I don’t look very good but that’s mostly a dysmorphia thing. If the girl wants to wear glasses so bad she could just get empty frames
Man I don't know about it.. On the not having a sibling idea - I think that would have been one of the biggest losses and holes in my life to have not had my little brother. I know some older siblings get jealous when a younger one comes along but I loved the hell out of him from day one. If you have the right kind of relationship with your sibling(s), they're like a lifelong, built-in, default best friend, ally, wingman, support system, confidant, etc. I was only 4 when he was born but my parents said by the time he was maybe 1-2ish and I was 5-6ish, I would somehow manage to lift him up and out of his high-sided crib/baby bed thing and get him to the couch and lift him up onto it and grab him some baby food and feed him while watching Saturday morning cartoons together - all without ever hurting him. Around that time, I would also get him out and bring him to my bed to sleep with me because I wanted him nearby (it was at exactly this time where I had one of the most disturbing but memorable nightmares of my life that I still remember over 30 years later - in the nightmare, it was like I was just laying there awake in my bed looking at the ceiling with my brother sleeping beside me when my great-grandma in the form of Beetlejuice climbed out of the corner of the ceiling and crawled along the ceiling over to us while while flicking a long black tongue from her mouth - and then she swooped down and snatched up my little brother and disappeared with him back into the corner of the wall. I remember being traumatized and feeling helpless by that nightmare - it must have made an impression to remember it all these years later.. I think that nightmare was fueled from a raw fear of not having/losing my little brother..). But then, when I got a little older a few years later, I had some sort of ongoing deal like sleep paralysis or something where I was seeing the shadow people in my bedroom regularly and I was terrified to stay alone in my bedroom so I would go sleep with him. We've always been super close but we don't get to see each other much anymore since he got married and has 3 kids now but we're still close and have similar minds/thoughts/interests and I can't imagine not having my little brother or how that would have affected my life/personality.
I had a doctor who refused to adjust my psych meds because I didn't "look depressed." I was, in fact, very depressed, I just don't make an ass out of myself about it.
My moms hospital will occasionally get people who fake seizures and being unconscious, they talk to the side of the patient saying "we might have to stick a needle up their nose and into their brain" that usually does it.
It's because of people like these that it's hard to have doctors believe non-specific, odd or random symptoms. I was dismissed by 6 different coctors over the course of 10 years, and denied any further testing because it was stated on my records that I'd had a history of faking symptoms. Was even referred to a mental health professional, and even I thought I was losing my mind and imagining the occasional pain.
Story 2 kinda hit me because when I was younger I wanted glasses for some reason. But instead of faking stuff, I'd go to my parents for any minor "vision issue", like not being able to see far away things with a magnifying glass (which is just what happens when you try to see what's on the other side of the room with one). But then in 4th grade I had trouble seeing the board and actually needed glasses so I guess I got what I wished for
See stories like this make me think I'm overreacting when I get sick and this last weekend it nearly killed me. Not everyone who looks like they're faking is always faking. I was told I was lying for half my life until someone thought to test me for a rare GI disorder. After 12 years I was proven right, but that reputation stuck, and completely fucked me up.
ER doctors… for over a year I had to go to the ER with chronic kidney infections. Really painful, they did CT scans told me how severe it was, gave me antibiotics and sent me home. Interestingly enough every time they noted the CT showed air in the bladder. When ever the antibiotics ran out things were fine, for about two days. Then the same thing all over. I got a new urologist that looked at my records and immediately want to scope me. Long story a little shorter urinary fistula, thanks ER docs for a year of the same stuff over and over.
It’s impossible to fake needing glasses. This is 2024. Half of the eye exam is done in pretesting. The auto refractor gives the dr the approximate prescription ( if any) before you even start the exam.
Last year, I ended up in the icu and the even more intense icu but doctors were super confused because I insisted on taking walks frequently. Turns out normally patients that are so sick to be in those units don't take walks ever. So During the first stay in the icu they thought I was faking it. During the second stay they figured out I wasn't faking just incredibly strong young woman that can power through because I hate hospitals and being stuck in bed waited on hand and foot by nurses.
I've had three Grand Mal seizures in my life, but, I only remember the beginning of the first one because I was already in the hospital for a dangerously high fever. I got out a panicked, tight-jawed, "Mom?" before I blacked out. If you are aware enough and physically able, to respond to questions in complete sentences while "having a seizure," your credibility should be immediately called into question. Thankfully, after the third seizure, I was diagnosed and medicated, and I haven't had a seizure (Petit Mal, or Grand Mal) since.
I thought I would enjoy the humour here, but I'm concerned for every one of these people. They all have deep needs, even if they're treating hospitals like hotels, or seeking attention. Faking illness is just such a demeaning thing to do for any payoff or goal. Regular hospital staff shouldn't be overstretched by these folks, but maybe mental health people should help them. There's no clearer cry for help than needing to do this. Everybody WANTS to be mature, before complicated life things change their minds, I think -- People want that dependable, lasting power. If they're trading on it this seriously, I feel like it'saclear cry for help -- just not the kind they're faking. I hate immaturity as much as anybody. It isn't a fun issue to tackle. But it's actually concerning to think about these folks.
Not defending someone who was clearly faking, but sometimes a fall can cause temporary paralysis. I fell once, landing hard on my knees. I literally could not use my legs. My brother had to carry me home. After several minutes the feeling came back and I could walk. Felt terrible for my brother, though, since he got yelled at for causing my fall.
Story 15: it’s about sympathy. They hadn’t even told their family they were there yet so they were upset that they weren’t going to get that sympathy from them.
I often wonder what's gone wrong that leads to people faking. Like what happened that your aftaid of whatever you need to do to lead to you faking to get out of it. Or is something leading to you feeling so abandoned you need to fake something to get noticed? And obviously drugs are also a major problem.
Unless your a kid, have dementia, or are addicted to drugs, there is literally no reason to do this, why do some people do it? Do you want to be stuck in a hospital?
The girl faking poor vision because she thought glasses were cool? Yeesh. I kept telling my mom I couldn't see,& she kept saying that I was just " trying to get attention". Turns out I was horribly nearsighted; I remember being astonished that they were actually WRITING on the blackboard in school...I thought you were just supposed to follow the hand motions,& IMAGINE the letters! And I never knew roofs had shingles; I thought they were just smooth. My sister remembers my father really yelling at my mom about that... Heh. That wasn't the half of it! Because I stayed quietly in my room,& never got in trouble, I was considered the 'good' kid. Wasn't diagnosed as autistic until I was in my FIFTIES!!!😱
My dad faked being sick to get out of school by rubbing his head on the water bed and his mom would come in he would say I’m sick she puts her hand on his forehead said yep you’re sick stay home not sure how long the trick lasted but from what my dad said it sound affective to bad it doesn’t work in the modern day (no lie i tried that trick once and faked being asleep once my parents knew these tricks so didn’t work) kids don’t attempt on skipping school you’re parents are the masters of the old get out of school cards and your only making yourself suffer more school from skipping school. Rip grandma your the funniest grandma I ever had.
Regarding the woman who only wanted male doctors to examine her breasts and as you called them "kitty parts", can you imagine how quickly I would get arrested if I had "rooster problems" and insisted numerous, only female medical professionals examine me? Where's the gender equality on this one.
Story 14: She didn't say it was an "unwanted" baby, but that she needed a break from taking care of her other children. Being a mother is an exhausting and stressful job, but that doesn't mean you dont love your children. Saying that it was very wrong the way she handled it.
She found out she was pregnant with baby #6 when she came in intending to get sterilized so she would not have a baby #6. Seems like the definition of an unwanted pregnancy, even if she was a loving mother to all six.
That last one wasn’t sad at all. It sounds like a woman trying to get male doctors to look at her intimately. I felt disgusting just reading it. If a man constantly told female doctors they had issues with their junk for “attention” people could easily see that as the harassment it is. Why is it difficult to see here?
The bleeding woman is a piece of crap for doing that. I did bleed extremely heavy and everytime i would go to the hospital it seemed to stop. This went on and on for weeks i didnt understand, they thought i was bullshitting until it happened while i was at the hospital. No wonder they didnt believe me at first with ppl like this out there.
Did you hear the entire story? She was experiencing psychosis she isn't a piece of crap for something she couldn't control. You should read up on postpartum psychosis since it's more common than during pregnancy and you will find more information that way. My friend had to stay at an inpatient facility because her head was telling her that her newborn was a demon and she was hearing voices. After treatment she was fine and raised the baby.
The only PoS in that story is probably her "loving" husband who most likely does little to nothing around their 5 kids, had no problem with her destroyinhg her body with each pregnancy and couldn't be bothered to wear a condom or get vasectomy. Not surprised she couldn't deal with it anymore after she got pregnant AGAIN just before she was able to get her tubes tied and started to experience psychosis.
@@janemiettinen5176 Except psychosis is not random. Something caused it. Likely something over which she had little or no power, but still. Out of nuclear physics, nothing is random, causality is king.
Aside from the girl, that didnt want to go to school (just because thats slightly concerning and makes.me wonder why she didnt want to go to school that badly), people like this are some of the biggest losers out there. Wasting everyone's time, keeping doctors from seeing patients who actually need help, and overall making the healthcare process more difficult for people that ACTUALLY need help. Wastes of space
Unfortunately i lied about needing glasses when i was a kid cuz i too thought it was cool and the Dr didnt figure out i was .ying and now my vision is messed up. Hard lesson learned unfortunately 😢
I HATED SCHOOL. I mean really jhated it. In 3rd grade I shook some talc down my throat and did appropriate acting. Even fooled Doc. They were convinced I had a pushy infection in my throat. GOT OUT OF MOST 3RD GRADE!! AWESOME !
@joijuaire-darfler4614 no I could do all the work without going so I passed. I didn't get cheated. I did just fine with my BS in microbiology, worked in hospital lab, ER, OR, and changed to teaching credential for K-12. School is such a joke.
The seizure fakers should be told they need rectal rescue medication (real thing) to help them. Then explain that it means someone would have to stick a finger up their butt to stop the seizure 🤣
Re your little two cents at the end of some of these stories... Most of these people aren't mentally well, but you're commenting on their actions as if that isn't the case.
I thought maybe this vid would have new stories, but a lot of these are just copycats of other, Reddit-reads vids, w/ 3-5 year old posts. So disappointing 😞
Some people suffer from Munchausen's Syndrome where they are convinced they have stuff wrong with them and need meds, surgery, whatever. Should they be treated by having said meds, surgery that they insist they need? or should their mental health issues be dealt with via therapists and other mental health practitioners ? Then....what about those with gender dysphoria? How can these people best be helped?
People thinking they actually have something they don't is hypochondria. Münchhausen's is an artificial disorder, so they know they are faking and are doing it on purpose but the gain and motivation is usually something interior and not only exterior like money. They might even harm themselves to fake symptoms, for example contamined injections to cause a fever/sepsis. They often find some kind of gain in the patient role. But they know they caused the symptoms and are doing it voluntary even if they might not be able to reflect on their purpose without therapy. So to answer the first part of your question, people with hypochondria who think they have a specific thing or changing things which they don't, as well as with health anxiety who are so scared to get something that they might overreact to minor symptoms as well as who fake things, especially for interior gain and psychological reasons like with Munchhausen's are all a case for psychotherapy. Possibly even if they do it for exterior gain like money because that can come with pathological personality traits like lack of empathy for people they exploit or feeling superior or entitled to it due to narcissistic or antisocial personality traits (following icd - 10, the new 11 categorizes personality pathology different).
Either way, they shouldn't just be ignored or sent away. If someone is desperate enough to fake something for the drugs there's clearly some drug problem there. If a little girl refuses to eat, because she doesn't want to go to school, there's something wrong at school or home. (Most) people don't just do these things for the fun of it
In terms of the girl who didn’t eat because she didn’t want to go to school, there was most likely something going on. People don’t just not eat because they don’t want to go to school. The was probably EXTREMELY stressed or was being severely bullied, and those are issues. They should have had a social worker come in.
Especially if the bullying is about weight. I fainted a few times at school because I barely ate.
I did this but my mother never even realized I wasn’t eating. 😒 Then she’d just tell me to “kill them with kindness” but never explained what that meant or how to do it.
Nice to know they're are people who can see bullying and that sadly nothing had changed since the 90s as far as schools allowing bullying. I once had a migraine for a full week but since a doctor couldn't find anything wrong my parents forced me to return to school, the bullying got worse and so did the migraine until I fainted. I just stopped going and would walk around town all day until the school caked my mother, as punishment I was sent to a boarding school where bullies were expelled and their parents not given a refund, headache went away.
I’ve seen more kids completely just not want to go to school other than it being an inconvenience. One of my classmates dropped out 2 months before graduation because they didn’t want to wake up in the morning anymore (18 going on 19 that summer with half a dozen siblings and nieces/nephews actively enrolled so their parents kinda quit trying). If this was a primary schooler, I doubt they’d be that committed to the act just to avoid school. That said, a week absent would only draw attention when she returned I would think. Maybe some kind of event that week she didn’t want to participate in
@@RunnyBabbitMomthat’s the best thing I possibly read this decade. Can’t stand a bully, even more so when there’s a group and the school won’t do anything. Hearing about a school that expels bullies and won’t refund parents needs to be standard. I’m glad both your headache and bully troubles went away and I’m sorry you had to deal with it to begin with
I had a nurse in the ER ask me, if I always go to the ER for stomach pains...
I told him, if it's worse than any pain ever, yes.
I got admitted overnight, next day they operated. During the operation they confirm I had appendicitis.
It's almost as if I know my body and how much pain is normal... And wanting to spew from pain is not normal for my body.
Someone really needs to check on that girl who wouldn't eat because she didn't want to go to school. That's EXTREME avoidance behavior. I hope there was some follow-up about why she's so anxious or hates school that much. I understand that sometimes kids really do just dislike school and are never going to be totally happy there, but for your anxiety/hate to override a basic human survival instinct is usually indicative of something bigger going on.
If only schools were actually designed to teach kids, for starters, things would be so much better…
😊k@@FlorestanTrement
Currently at this very moment not wanting to eat because my Major Depressive Disorder is really bad right now. I have Generalized Anxiety Disorder too. That girl has definitely got to be going through something huge and I hope wherever she is she gets the help she needs. (I'm a work in progress who's in treatment.)
As a retired nurse, my best friend was always being "sick". On one of her trips to the ER she gave the doctor her symptoms of stomach pain that matched what I had told her before of having appendicitis. They were all set to admit her for surgery until I reminded her, she had already had it removed a couple of years ago.
Let me guess - they surgically removed a perfectly healthy appendix two years previously. 🤣
Not eating is self harm and should’ve been treated with therapy as most kids/teens don’t avoid school to this extent
I had to go to the emergency room for an injury two months ago. They didn’t do much, put me on some muscle relaxers, had me try walking around, but I was in extreme pain when they tried having me go up some stairs. The PT basically told me it’s mostly in my head.
Since I live in a house with a lot of stairs, I spent the night at my parents’ rambler. The next morning I was in so much pain that I couldn’t sit up. I tried multiple times to stand so my mom could take me back to the ER, and we ended up calling an ambulance to help me get into a vehicle.
Long story short, we went to a different ER which was closer to my parents. They treated me like I was seeking drugs and even sent in a social worker to see if I needed food or shelter. It was both humiliating and frustrating that they wouldn’t take my pain seriously and I ended up leaving still in extreme pain. Seeing this video makes me understand it better (still not okay) and hate the fact that people who try this crap are making it so much harder for the rest of us who truly need help.
Very true. Are you feeling better now?
Doctors aren't supposed to evaluate patients based on what psychosocial shit has happened with other patients. Not that they can't notice trends, but they aren't supposed to universally decide "ER patient in pain always wants drugs". They're supposed to evaluate them on the patients actual symptoms and signs. So there isn't a reason for drug seeking losers to affect how genuinely ill patients are treated.
I've had similar injures myself and pretty much every time I've presented to the ER I've been treated as a drug seeker. I have seizures and I hEDS the last time I presented to the ER I had dislocated my shoulder normally I just keep on going but this HURT, quite obviously might I mention that my shoulder was FUBAR , the swelling was visible to even an untrained eye. The first nurse I saw triage nurse if I remember right was kind and treated me well. THE MOMENT I'm in the trauma bay, what are you here for, your shoulder went out after a seizure hmm i don't think so, what you're allergic to ibuprofen , hey have this shot of something similar and don't complain.
I have a ridiculously high pain tolerance and have had to relocate dislocations on my own hundreds of times before so frankly I'm used to pain now, they X-ray my shoulder and say it's back in and that I'm fine because I'm not crying or showing signs of pain mind you I'm very dissociated at this point and barely know where I am and they didn't let me have my mum with me for this exact reason , on my medical paper work it says my mum is supposed to be with me unless being operated on or being x-rayed, in a MRI or reviving a CT scan. Dislocations you are meant to have an ultra sound to see if the muscles haven't been damaged or a nerve has been pinched. A week later I see my GP, I have muscle damage and need to wear a sling 24/7 for a month...
I HATE people who fake pain/ injures or just want a quick fix and think they can fuck with the system. People like that make people in need of medical assistance hesitant because we get treated like absolute shit and fucked around for simple check ups or an actual emergency.
It took my mum 10 years to find a doctor who would actually look at her and her symptoms and treat her like a human and treat her illnesses as well as my own.
This is especially infuriating since US pharma bred this. Maybe you can reconcile with the fact that at least two stories here were about actually sick people who turned out to need psychological treatment.
I got pretty jealous when my sister got glasses. I considered bombing my eye exam so that I could get them, but eventually decided that that was stupid. When I took the test, I realized that I actually needed glasses. I had thought blurry vision at a distance of ten feet was normal. At least I got my wish and can also see better now.
Same. I hadnt noticed anything but my sister got glasses. So i started on the i also can't see bandwagon. i was truthful on my exam though and lo and behold, i actually am nearsighted.
2:33 no thats not true, the reflex vision and the active vision are two different brain parts, the active one can be destroyed but the reflex will still work. As long as the eyes themselves work.
You can throw something at a blind person and that person possibly catches or dodges it, even though they don't know why. Reflexes are subconscious, you do them before you realize, thats pretty interesting, especially since paralyzed people can in some cases reflex their "disconnected" body parts.
Btw one reason a person that is paralysed from the neck down can still digest stuff, even though its in the area that shouldn't be doing stuff. Heart is a different story as well, its basically functioning on its own by rhythmically pulsing, there is no brain activity involved and no spinal Reflex either, wich is one of the reasons why a heart still beats when you take it out of a fresh corpse.
As a blind person, this is bullshit
Ppl think I can see better than I do. Everything is fuzzy but I can see color and can see movement. I can catch a yellow ball pretty good.
He's referring more to the people faking total blindness, which is definitely something people wanna fake for some reason.
Like he said, it wouldn't work for a multitude of different reasons, but you could definitely use it to out someone faking total blindness.
I’m horrified. Just…why?
I have a traumatic brain injury from birth…doctor error. No one would diagnose it until a week after my 18th birthday (could no longer sue).
I spent most of my childhood being accused of “faking it” as TBIs vary differently in each person and mine got worse with the onset of puberty (can happen). I was sent to multiple psychiatrists who all said it was physical not mental. Still, I was accused and doubted. My parents were accused of Munchousen by Proxy and were evaluated (they were cleared). I was told that to fix the fact I couldn’t walk I just needed to play tennis and run around the block, that my arms would move right if I just let them, and the headaches would stop if I did something constructive.
I cannot adequately express the trauma this left me with. I spent years doubting myself and wondering if I actually was faking and didn’t know it. Took a long time to accept that some TBIs have up and down days and it’s ok if I one day I can stand and the next I can’t.
Why anyone would fake an illness is beyond me completely.
Not a doctor but retired Nurse. Had a couple that had been banned from all the ER's in the area. The couple was divorced, but the ex wife was still obsessed with the ex husbnd. The ex husband would come to the ER drug seeking. To be on the safe side, he would get admitted. Whenever he got admitted, all of the sudden , the ex wife would get admitted for an injury or illness and end up on the same floor, so she could be on the same floor as him.
14:45 - Story 17: Not freaking out about something doesn't automatically mean they aren't concerned. I was partially paralyzed because of a spine issue just last summer and had to get surgery. But I wasn't freaking out about it because I knew it wouldn't help. That doesn't mean i wasn't incredibly scared
Yep. Same with me and getting emergency surgery for a large tumor in my abdomen. I was the calmest person out of everyone
I can tell the exact opposite. I was the patient and the nurses and staff thought I was drug seeking. I had had a brain tumor removed a week prior and was released from the hospital after 4 days. 2 days later surgically induced migraines starts. I’ve had migraines since I was four and never want to experience the pain I’ve felt with this migraine. Went to my er and they were great and got in contact with my surgeon who was at the hospital 3 hours away. I had been given pain meds and felt I was fine to go with my parents to the other hospital and not in an ambulance. By the time we got there the pain meds wore off. I tried not to make loud screams and keep myself quiet because I know how loud I was in pain and I’m just concerned about others. Well the nurses left me in the waiting room for at least an hour even when they had been told and warned I would be coming and to take me back immediately and my surgeon had a plan in place. They thought I was a drug seeker. After hours of no pain relief, wouldn’t even give my prescription migraine meds, we finally got a hold of the doctor. He was furious. With 30 mins of starting the treatment the pain was almost gone. When we came back a week later for post op and another scan we let him know what happened. Many nurses got fired for malpractice and refusing to attempt to call the doctor. Gave no pain meds. Left me alone in a room for hours screaming in pain because I was clearly faking it, after having brain surgery! My surgeon was pissed! After we left he found out exactly who was a part of my “care” and we had given names. They are gone. I understand people will try anything for pain meds. But when the surgeon has given detailed instructions, told the er that I would be coming in, and I had just had a brain surgery, you would think they would look more deeply into if it’s real or not. You can’t fake heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen levels.
Similar experience here. My local hospital thought I was a drug seeker (due to the area I'm in though I have zero record or signs of that personally) and no obvious cause of pain. Sent me home on three separate occasions. I just gave up, but luckily I still lived at home and my Aunt was is an ex-nurse. She examined me, took me to the hospital (even though I initially refused) and demanded I be seen again. They then accused me of taking something as my liver showed signs of failing, but I had not. Turned out I had blood poisoning from an internal abscess they miss-diagnosed and my organs had started shutting down. I probably would have been dead in the next 24 hours. Shame you can't sue in Australia for that. I did get a meeting held though as this was a huge stuff up that could have lead to loss of life.
They've screwed me over several other times since then, so now I travel to a different hospital.
Same here. I have chronic migraines. It’s been 30 years as of now. This was about 15 years ago. I had a migraine and it was getting worse by the minute. I went to my neurologist office and he sent me to the ER I told him I didn’t want to go because they won’t treat me and would even leave me in the waiting room when there weren’t any other patients there. Said to my that I was only there for drugs. He called ahead and told them that he would be sending me for them to treat me ASAP . Not to be told how to treat me or maybe to prove I was faking they set me up with a spinal tap. I don’t know why I would need it or how it would show I was lying. As they were doing the test the nurse ( the one that was always nasty to me) asked if it was painful. I said I told you I have a horrible migraine and this is nothing. After that they treated me kindly and believed me. Because of people faking it for drugs they have become so suspicious of people that it has affected their judgment and they refuse to relieve pain. So sad
@@RoeRoe1946i wish you would have sued. Then they would actually care instead of just pretending to be sorry.
@@jaderavenau8005Glad you have somewhere else you can go
Bro wrote an essay and a half 💀💀💀
I get seizures ... people who are faking that are so disgusting to me. it´s a horrible thing to have.
I have petit mail but occasionally have a grand mahl. Your right. A college age boy came in and we later found out he didn't want to take his exam, he faked a grand mahl, even banging his head and knees on the metal table to "prove" it was real. Just disgusting.
@@MistySartin ouch ... I had bruises too one time when I fell down in the bathroom ... no fun at all. I saw stars after I woke up again ... I was so scared about that.
@@anjachan I'm so sorry. Yeah you don't know how bad seizures are unless you have them. It's a nightmare for us.
@@MistySartin it is.
I had passed out and called 911. I was having difficulty breathing, doctor said “you have CHF and are in fluid overload. We can’t help you. Two days later, different hospital diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. Good thing I went somewhere else.
A diagnosis of CHF with fluid overload manifesting as respiratory distress should have gotten you admitted, even if it turned out you had something else (which they would have likely discovered with routine treatment and exams for CHF exacerbation).
I think the guy who 'pretended' to be unconscious and breathed out saying 'breathe' might have been high or in some psychosis. Breathing with verbal effects is not normal for someone his age, even in a 'faking an illness in a very dumb way' scenario.
17:34 hypochondriac here! im not 100% sure bc im not a medical professional (obviously), but from what I know hypochondriacs are generally so afraid of being sick that we go into denial and refuse medical help bc we "can't be sick!" also not that hypochondriacs and germaphobes are NOT the same thing, even though one person can have both, they are generally separate.
Oh yeah, pregnancy and post partum psychosis both are a thing that can happen.
happened to my buddy savannah, terrifying.
Doesn’t post partum mean “after birth”?
@@nationalinstituteofcheese3012 exactly what that means
16:59 It's called Factitious Disorder, not "Facetious Disorder."
For story 13, it's pretty scary to b asymptomatic for something that will cause you to die.
Yes, but I think she would start experiencing symptoms as the embryo would grow. It's usually not like someone's asymptomatic for a whole lot of time and then they suddenly die of ectopic pregnancy. She would have some pains before it was too late. But of course there are surely people who die from it because they either dismiss their symptoms or the symptoms are not extreme enough for them to go to a hospital.
@@ameliab324it might have been her believing that she had period pains before she learned she was pregnant…sometimes it happens to women and she might have not known for another month when her next period missed
i'm late to the party here but i can give my own experience of i guess the opposite of this. 8 months ago my vision deteriorated without any clear cause. I can now only see shapes and colours and have severe light sensitivity. I have been passed from department to department with no clear answers and there have been implications that i am faking, i have even been reviewed by the psych team with them saying there is no disorder of the mind. I hate people that fake things like this because it makes unusual cases like mine so much less likely to be believed and therefore makes diagnosis and treatment so much harder to access and obtain.
Sorry for the rant this sort of behaviour just pisses me off.
I used to go to a Goth club with a friend who loved to pretend to “get the sprit” and pretend to pass out dramatically. More than a few times, the bouncers came and told her if she didn’t wake up they were calling the paramedics. She “awoke” miraculously every time.
A common trick rich housewives in India use.
Hyperventilating after an argument or doing a fuk up
Then asked to be taken to hospital
My cousin is doctor
He noticed this lady who was a frequent visitor, this is a charitable hospital which is always crowded and she would waste a lot of time because she was craving attention and trying to show her family how they have wronged her
This time my cousin decided to insert iv needle and "discussed loudly " on connecting a feeding tube via her nose.
She felt better within seconds
The additional commentary added around 12:30 are unnecessary. That's what psychosis is. A mental lapse in judgement so extreme it borders psychotic tendencies the individual hasn't shown before. A break of reality due to stress, if you will. That's why it's called psychosis. No need to rag on something anyone can experience at random and especially since she was already diagnosed and got help.
Agreed someone can be an upstanding citizen and experience this.
My friend had postpartum psychosis and thought her 2nd baby was a demon. Voices in her head were telling her the baby was going to kill her family. After getting inpatient treatment she was fine and able to raise her kids in a healthy environment for everyone
"at random": That's a foolish thing only bad doctors would say. There is always a cause and always a reason why it happens when it happens and why this is what happens. A good doctors job, after relieving dangerous or very painful symptoms, is to find those reasons so that the problem can be fixed. Most doctors just don't care.
A good doctor should see themselves as an health engineer, not as some tinkerer adding some tape to plug a leak.
He was very respectful so not sure how you got ragging from that. It’s extra information provided on the post so he added it… why are you taking this personally?😂
@@ZomBeeQueeen I suppose it's my post you are referring to?
Because these doctors claiming to care for their patients are killing us. They are making us more sick, and they rarely ever actually do any of good to their patients. They even promote fake medicine to give to healthy people to poison them so that they start consuming more fake medicine.
They are violating their oath several times a day. And they don't even realize it, because they are just brainwashed hard enough to become incapable to see what they are actually doing. And they are so arrogant on top of it; nearly all of them. And they have a monopoly over most treatments on top of it all.
I know: my various health problems started to get better only once I started finding ways to treat myself through searching information elsewhere and experimenting with an open mind.
Do you know what happen when you have a chronic problem? They give you something that supposed to cure you. When it doesn't, you know what they do? They just give you more of the shit that doesn't work. Sometimes years on end. Happened to me for 3 unrelated troubles.
TH-cam is a better healer than any doctor I ever met, and I consulted a lot of them. It helped cure myself of two "incurable life-time" sicknesses and a few they refused to even acknowledge once they found they did not know any treatment to them, all of my allergies a good number of phobias.
Most of this using things as cheap as vitamin C or identifying common poisons in my environment or food and getting away from them or reading books from doctors who actually know their stuff.
So, sure, they actually know how to treat some very important things like a setting a broken bone or how to clean and suture a wound. But for most things, they are more than incompetent: they are destructive and deadly.
@@ZomBeeQueeenhe used an entirely wrong and far worse mental health term that’s nothing like the situation she suffered, it’s a horrible thing to call someone especially based on his ignorance
3:36 And in Reddit/lawyers was the case of the disabled woman who the investigators took photos of doing all sorts of activities outside the home instead of being bedridden as claimed. First witness for the disabled woman? Her identical twin sister who had moved in to care for her disabled sister. Oops. 😂
she wasn’t going to lie for her sister no matter how much money she was offered!
The jumping jacks trick they pulled on my little cousin and sent him home. His appendix had burst. Of course he wasn’t 12 going in asking for oxys but if they hadn’t taken him to a second ER an hour away he could of died because he could do jumping jacks so they considered him fine. He was in the child ICU for over a week.
Hope you sued.
@@Jenna2k tbh if my cousins mom sued she would of wasted all the money anyways. Maybe they would make her put it away for my cousin but god knows she would try and manipulate him into giving her it all. He’s still a minor and doesn’t even live with the family because she burns every bridge she has. Rn she’s living in someone’s garage using a bucket as a bathroom with her dog that she found more important than my cousin.
@@qeshetanimalsSad. Hope he’s doing better now
nice lie…seriously, you need to come up with a better lie because that is not how the diagnosis is done at all especially for kids.
I did the glasses thing in 6th grade. Turns out, I actually did need glasses 😂. I thought I was faking it
I did the glasses thing in 2nd grade, actually needed them
And then there’s my mom and I who go to the doctor and they end up saying “how are you dealing with this for so long?” All we say is “fibromyalgia” and they go oh. Oh my. 😂😂😂
Not a Doctor, am a retired medical ASL interpreter. I was talking with an energetic mid-30's Deaf man with no deficits in his mobility or use of his left hand/arm. We get to the exam room and his left hand turns into a claw just before the Dr. walks in, he begins to have full arm spasms. The doctor observes him, asks if the muscle spasms/pain has returned. He winces, nods, and the doctor writes 3 prescription, the man goes to in-hospital pharmacy, fills them. On his way to his car, he takes 2 pain meds and and leaves with no spasms present.
Good doctor. Better to let people who don't need pain meds have them than to risk innocent people who need them suffering. He would have just got the same thing on the street anyway.
I thought I was faking... I had a truck run over my foot but initially my brain registered it as "sprained ankle" pain. I didn't understand why I was screaming and crying in the street instead of just getting up, and why the lady (with a first aid diploma) told me to stay down. Some guy came up to me and tried to calm me down by saying nothing was wrong with my leg. Turns out my foot was crushed by the truck, I nearly lost it, and I still suffer from the after effects nearly a decade layer. I also consistently refused to call it a 10 even if in hindsight it was unimaginable to the point I was closer to a 12 🙃 (I ended up with a morphine IV with one of the self administering pumps and underdosing... Which is bad for long term nerve pain as there's a correlation between pain control within 24 hrs and long term nerve pain!).
Reminds me of the time I broke my toe but was convinced it was just sprained and didn't go to the doctor until it was mostly healed (and wonky of course)
13:42 the focus on the fact that none of the family knew in order to come and visit suggests to me that perhaps a medical emergency was the only thing that could draw her family away from their own lives for long enough to come see her, and she perhaps didn't see them otherwise. which is honestly really sad if that's the case, and while it's not a good idea, I can kinda see why she might find benefit from doing that.
The first story about that oxycodone woman made me laugh so hard.
Peripartum psychosis. This would have taken like 20 seconds of Googling for you to discover before you acted like she was potentially a threat for life.
The girl who faked needing glasses... someone should've explained to her that you can get glasses with plain glass lenses that don't actually affect your vision at all lol
As a retired respiratory therapist, I’ve seen people fake seizures while yelling “I’m having a seizure!” Another time we had an ER patient who was unresponsive, but the doctor was suspicious. He lifted the patient’s head off the pillow and quickly removed his hand. There was a lag between removing his hand and the patient’s head dropping back to the pillow, which indicated that the patient was not unresponsive. The doctor mouthed “you can leave” to me.
Pregnancy can cause imbalance of hormones and lead to mental instability both before and after pregnancy - luckily mental health professionals are getting better at recognizing it
Last story: classic Münchausen syndrome. At least it wasn’t by proxy. Faking illness for attention seeking is bad enough, but faking/inducing illness in your children to get that attention? Despicable.
Story 2 is simply a story of a little sister who idolized her big sister. Can’t fault her for it, though.
Story 2 lol
I hated when my vision declined because of all the media of “nerds” and “ugly” people wearing glasses and I was scared of being bullied and looking weird. I brought my glasses to school but only ever wore them to read the board; I didn’t want anyone to see me with them on.
The entire time I wore glasses literally no one cared. Felt better about wearing them since no one ever cared about it. I still think I don’t look very good but that’s mostly a dysmorphia thing.
If the girl wants to wear glasses so bad she could just get empty frames
There is so much dedication in some of these stories. I don't blame a woman for not wanting to go home to five kids.
Man I don't know about it.. On the not having a sibling idea - I think that would have been one of the biggest losses and holes in my life to have not had my little brother. I know some older siblings get jealous when a younger one comes along but I loved the hell out of him from day one. If you have the right kind of relationship with your sibling(s), they're like a lifelong, built-in, default best friend, ally, wingman, support system, confidant, etc. I was only 4 when he was born but my parents said by the time he was maybe 1-2ish and I was 5-6ish, I would somehow manage to lift him up and out of his high-sided crib/baby bed thing and get him to the couch and lift him up onto it and grab him some baby food and feed him while watching Saturday morning cartoons together - all without ever hurting him.
Around that time, I would also get him out and bring him to my bed to sleep with me because I wanted him nearby (it was at exactly this time where I had one of the most disturbing but memorable nightmares of my life that I still remember over 30 years later - in the nightmare, it was like I was just laying there awake in my bed looking at the ceiling with my brother sleeping beside me when my great-grandma in the form of Beetlejuice climbed out of the corner of the ceiling and crawled along the ceiling over to us while while flicking a long black tongue from her mouth - and then she swooped down and snatched up my little brother and disappeared with him back into the corner of the wall.
I remember being traumatized and feeling helpless by that nightmare - it must have made an impression to remember it all these years later.. I think that nightmare was fueled from a raw fear of not having/losing my little brother..). But then, when I got a little older a few years later, I had some sort of ongoing deal like sleep paralysis or something where I was seeing the shadow people in my bedroom regularly and I was terrified to stay alone in my bedroom so I would go sleep with him. We've always been super close but we don't get to see each other much anymore since he got married and has 3 kids now but we're still close and have similar minds/thoughts/interests and I can't imagine not having my little brother or how that would have affected my life/personality.
The blind one, that wouldn't work as they can still tell that there is an object coming at them.
I had a doctor who refused to adjust my psych meds because I didn't "look depressed." I was, in fact, very depressed, I just don't make an ass out of myself about it.
When you go in faking to avoid shit, just to find out your actually facing a life threatening situation xD
Man. That feels like a crime to fake needing glasses when I desperately wish I didn't need to wear them 😞
My moms hospital will occasionally get people who fake seizures and being unconscious, they talk to the side of the patient saying "we might have to stick a needle up their nose and into their brain" that usually does it.
they gave me oxycodone after surgery and all it made me do was sleepy.. after a few days i stopped taking it
That's great. Unfortunately some people have the physiology that causes them to get hooked on it.
@@kissedbysun2517 :(
It's because of people like these that it's hard to have doctors believe non-specific, odd or random symptoms. I was dismissed by 6 different coctors over the course of 10 years, and denied any further testing because it was stated on my records that I'd had a history of faking symptoms. Was even referred to a mental health professional, and even I thought I was losing my mind and imagining the occasional pain.
Story 2 kinda hit me because when I was younger I wanted glasses for some reason. But instead of faking stuff, I'd go to my parents for any minor "vision issue", like not being able to see far away things with a magnifying glass (which is just what happens when you try to see what's on the other side of the room with one). But then in 4th grade I had trouble seeing the board and actually needed glasses so I guess I got what I wished for
7:47 lol you were supposed to edit that out right?
See stories like this make me think I'm overreacting when I get sick and this last weekend it nearly killed me. Not everyone who looks like they're faking is always faking. I was told I was lying for half my life until someone thought to test me for a rare GI disorder. After 12 years I was proven right, but that reputation stuck, and completely fucked me up.
ER doctors… for over a year I had to go to the ER with chronic kidney infections. Really painful, they did CT scans told me how severe it was, gave me antibiotics and sent me home. Interestingly enough every time they noted the CT showed air in the bladder. When ever the antibiotics ran out things were fine, for about two days. Then the same thing all over.
I got a new urologist that looked at my records and immediately want to scope me. Long story a little shorter urinary fistula, thanks ER docs for a year of the same stuff over and over.
It’s impossible to fake needing glasses. This is 2024. Half of the eye exam is done in pretesting. The auto refractor gives the dr the approximate prescription ( if any) before you even start the exam.
Bro... I faked it when I was eight and ended up actually needing them 😂
Having a baby literally changes you.
Last year, I ended up in the icu and the even more intense icu but doctors were super confused because I insisted on taking walks frequently. Turns out normally patients that are so sick to be in those units don't take walks ever. So During the first stay in the icu they thought I was faking it. During the second stay they figured out I wasn't faking just incredibly strong young woman that can power through because I hate hospitals and being stuck in bed waited on hand and foot by nurses.
I like to read along on these kinds of videos, but the car ride was making me dizzy. Got to 2:00.
I've had three Grand Mal seizures in my life, but, I only remember the beginning of the first one because I was already in the hospital for a dangerously high fever. I got out a panicked, tight-jawed, "Mom?" before I blacked out. If you are aware enough and physically able, to respond to questions in complete sentences while "having a seizure," your credibility should be immediately called into question. Thankfully, after the third seizure, I was diagnosed and medicated, and I haven't had a seizure (Petit Mal, or Grand Mal) since.
I think I have serious case of 'first', doc
I thought I would enjoy the humour here, but I'm concerned for every one of these people. They all have deep needs, even if they're treating hospitals like hotels, or seeking attention. Faking illness is just such a demeaning thing to do for any payoff or goal. Regular hospital staff shouldn't be overstretched by these folks, but maybe mental health people should help them. There's no clearer cry for help than needing to do this. Everybody WANTS to be mature, before complicated life things change their minds, I think -- People want that dependable, lasting power. If they're trading on it this seriously, I feel like it'saclear cry for help -- just not the kind they're faking. I hate immaturity as much as anybody. It isn't a fun issue to tackle. But it's actually concerning to think about these folks.
Not defending someone who was clearly faking, but sometimes a fall can cause temporary paralysis. I fell once, landing hard on my knees. I literally could not use my legs. My brother had to carry me home. After several minutes the feeling came back and I could walk. Felt terrible for my brother, though, since he got yelled at for causing my fall.
I have been through way too much with Doctors hospitals nurses procedures surgery to want to fake anything.
Story 15: it’s about sympathy. They hadn’t even told their family they were there yet so they were upset that they weren’t going to get that sympathy from them.
I often wonder what's gone wrong that leads to people faking. Like what happened that your aftaid of whatever you need to do to lead to you faking to get out of it. Or is something leading to you feeling so abandoned you need to fake something to get noticed?
And obviously drugs are also a major problem.
Spiteful GF: *wraps it in a rubber* No one will ever believe you.
To those like me who only listen to this narrator:
This is the last video by him alone in this playlist, go back!
Lots of blindness stories today. Is that a common medical lie?
Unless your a kid, have dementia, or are addicted to drugs, there is literally no reason to do this, why do some people do it? Do you want to be stuck in a hospital?
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The girl faking poor vision because she thought glasses were cool? Yeesh. I kept telling my mom I couldn't see,& she kept saying that I was just " trying to get attention". Turns out I was horribly nearsighted; I remember being astonished that they were actually WRITING on the blackboard in school...I thought you were just supposed to follow the hand motions,& IMAGINE the letters! And I never knew roofs had shingles; I thought they were just smooth. My sister remembers my father really yelling at my mom about that... Heh. That wasn't the half of it! Because I stayed quietly in my room,& never got in trouble, I was considered the 'good' kid. Wasn't diagnosed as autistic until I was in my FIFTIES!!!😱
I told my friend how focal epilepsy works and the school found out and like 20 kids faked it
My dad faked being sick to get out of school by rubbing his head on the water bed and his mom would come in he would say I’m sick she puts her hand on his forehead said yep you’re sick stay home not sure how long the trick lasted but from what my dad said it sound affective to bad it doesn’t work in the modern day (no lie i tried that trick once and faked being asleep once my parents knew these tricks so didn’t work) kids don’t attempt on skipping school you’re parents are the masters of the old get out of school cards and your only making yourself suffer more school from skipping school.
Rip grandma your the funniest grandma I ever had.
Story 13 though…. That’s insanely lucky for the woman.
Story 2: 😂 I did that with glasses in the 2nd grade
There ought to be a law with some kind of fine for faling medical claims.
what game is being played in the background
Damn these are crazy. Most of my faking it stories aren't this exciting. Just chronically ill people who HATE their group homes.
Regarding the woman who only wanted male doctors to examine her breasts and as you called them "kitty parts", can you imagine how quickly I would get arrested if I had "rooster problems" and insisted numerous, only female medical professionals examine me? Where's the gender equality on this one.
How bad can you drive 😭
Story 14: She didn't say it was an "unwanted" baby, but that she needed a break from taking care of her other children. Being a mother is an exhausting and stressful job, but that doesn't mean you dont love your children. Saying that it was very wrong the way she handled it.
So you're morally judging this woman for peripartum psychosis?
She found out she was pregnant with baby #6 when she came in intending to get sterilized so she would not have a baby #6. Seems like the definition of an unwanted pregnancy, even if she was a loving mother to all six.
PLEASE!!!
ANY OTHER BACKGROUND THAN A CG CAR GAME........
I can _smell_ that post about the puke.
That last one wasn’t sad at all. It sounds like a woman trying to get male doctors to look at her intimately. I felt disgusting just reading it.
If a man constantly told female doctors they had issues with their junk for “attention” people could easily see that as the harassment it is. Why is it difficult to see here?
Thank God i am not a doctor!
Name of the background game
Story #1 couldnt have been in the US. Our optomotrists arent paid well enough by our system to play this much. " Dr. House" doesnt exsist....
Story 9 Isn’t that the excuse children make when they don’t want to do things?
Y O U. T A L K T O O
F A S T ! ! !
Do they have a lot of money cause it $400 and up to step in the ER?!!!
The bleeding woman is a piece of crap for doing that. I did bleed extremely heavy and everytime i would go to the hospital it seemed to stop. This went on and on for weeks i didnt understand, they thought i was bullshitting until it happened while i was at the hospital. No wonder they didnt believe me at first with ppl like this out there.
Did you hear the entire story? She was experiencing psychosis she isn't a piece of crap for something she couldn't control.
You should read up on postpartum psychosis since it's more common than during pregnancy and you will find more information that way.
My friend had to stay at an inpatient facility because her head was telling her that her newborn was a demon and she was hearing voices. After treatment she was fine and raised the baby.
The only PoS in that story is probably her "loving" husband who most likely does little to nothing around their 5 kids, had no problem with her destroyinhg her body with each pregnancy and couldn't be bothered to wear a condom or get vasectomy. Not surprised she couldn't deal with it anymore after she got pregnant AGAIN just before she was able to get her tubes tied and started to experience psychosis.
@@snake5solid Maybe it is. Maybe not. Sounds like projection.
Psychosis, honey. She wasnt in the drivers seat, this could happen to anyone, anytime.
@@janemiettinen5176 Except psychosis is not random. Something caused it. Likely something over which she had little or no power, but still.
Out of nuclear physics, nothing is random, causality is king.
Aside from the girl, that didnt want to go to school (just because thats slightly concerning and makes.me wonder why she didnt want to go to school that badly), people like this are some of the biggest losers out there. Wasting everyone's time, keeping doctors from seeing patients who actually need help, and overall making the healthcare process more difficult for people that ACTUALLY need help. Wastes of space
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Unfortunately i lied about needing glasses when i was a kid cuz i too thought it was cool and the Dr didnt figure out i was .ying and now my vision is messed up. Hard lesson learned unfortunately 😢
I HATED SCHOOL. I mean really jhated it. In 3rd grade I shook some talc down my throat and did appropriate acting. Even fooled Doc. They were convinced I had a pushy infection in my throat. GOT OUT OF MOST 3RD GRADE!! AWESOME !
Only cheated yourself of an education.
Did you have to repeat 3rd grade?
@joijuaire-darfler4614 no I could do all the work without going so I passed. I didn't get cheated. I did just fine with my BS in microbiology, worked in hospital lab, ER, OR, and changed to teaching credential for K-12. School is such a joke.
The seizure fakers should be told they need rectal rescue medication (real thing) to help them. Then explain that it means someone would have to stick a finger up their butt to stop the seizure 🤣
Re your little two cents at the end of some of these stories... Most of these people aren't mentally well, but you're commenting on their actions as if that isn't the case.
heck yeah, only child gang in the replies
I thought maybe this vid would have new stories, but a lot of these are just copycats of other, Reddit-reads vids, w/ 3-5 year old posts. So disappointing 😞
Some people suffer from Munchausen's Syndrome where they are convinced they have stuff wrong with them and need meds, surgery, whatever. Should they be treated by having said meds, surgery that they insist they need? or should their mental health issues be dealt with via therapists and other mental health practitioners ? Then....what about those with gender dysphoria? How can these people best be helped?
People thinking they actually have something they don't is hypochondria. Münchhausen's is an artificial disorder, so they know they are faking and are doing it on purpose but the gain and motivation is usually something interior and not only exterior like money. They might even harm themselves to fake symptoms, for example contamined injections to cause a fever/sepsis. They often find some kind of gain in the patient role. But they know they caused the symptoms and are doing it voluntary even if they might not be able to reflect on their purpose without therapy. So to answer the first part of your question, people with hypochondria who think they have a specific thing or changing things which they don't, as well as with health anxiety who are so scared to get something that they might overreact to minor symptoms as well as who fake things, especially for interior gain and psychological reasons like with Munchhausen's are all a case for psychotherapy. Possibly even if they do it for exterior gain like money because that can come with pathological personality traits like lack of empathy for people they exploit or feeling superior or entitled to it due to narcissistic or antisocial personality traits (following icd - 10, the new 11 categorizes personality pathology different).
Either way, they shouldn't just be ignored or sent away. If someone is desperate enough to fake something for the drugs there's clearly some drug problem there. If a little girl refuses to eat, because she doesn't want to go to school, there's something wrong at school or home. (Most) people don't just do these things for the fun of it
@@1eyed_songbird I do agree to that.
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