can i make a suggestion about why you find people faking interesting could it be a variant of impostor syndrome, these people are being impostors for real but in impostor syndrome people feel like they are lying about who they are that they will be found out one of the hardest aspects of disability is recognizing how far you are from 'normality' that what is normal for you is arrrggghhh I going to my bed and only getting up when i feel better for others. It's hard to actually say life is this hard because in the process it destroys the lies that one derives hope from, the hope that were just like everybody else and we will get back to being like everybody else soon.
Of course the people who are faking would be characterized as malingerers or Münchhausen syndrome but their doing it because that cant admit to themselves about the reality of their psychological disorders, our society is very discriminatory against people with mental health issues especially as any physical issues get relabeled as really mental health issues by shrinks. Thus if someone has internalized the belief that mental health issues aren't "real" then the only way they can resolve the contradiction between what they feel and what they believe is to create a physiological disorder.
Which is why some people with CFS/ME actually have depression but mislabel it to make themselves feel better. The problem of course is that shrinks then assume that everyone with CFS/ME has a psychological issue, which is garbage (correlation is not causation)
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Date: 2012-10-18 02:57 pm (UTC)could it be a variant of impostor syndrome,
these people are being impostors for real but in impostor syndrome people feel like they are lying about who they are that they will be found out
one of the hardest aspects of disability is recognizing how far you are from 'normality' that what is normal for you is arrrggghhh I going to my bed and only getting up when i feel better for others.
It's hard to actually say life is this hard because in the process it destroys the lies that one derives hope from, the hope that were just like everybody else and we will get back to being like everybody else soon.
Of course the people who are faking would be characterized as malingerers or Münchhausen syndrome but their doing it because that cant admit to themselves about the reality of their psychological disorders, our society is very discriminatory against people with mental health issues especially as any physical issues get relabeled as really mental health issues by shrinks. Thus if someone has internalized the belief that mental health issues aren't "real" then the only way they can resolve the contradiction between what they feel and what they believe is to create a physiological disorder.
Which is why some people with CFS/ME actually have depression but mislabel it to make themselves feel better. The problem of course is that shrinks then assume that everyone with CFS/ME has a psychological issue, which is garbage (correlation is not causation)