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'''Munchausen Syndrome''' is a psychological disorder that causes people to feign illness for attention. They often do this by poisoning themselves or hurting themselves in order to actually appear to have symptoms.
In some cases they'll even go so far as to involve other people, making them sick in order to capitalize on the attention of taking care of a sick child. This is called Munchausen's by Proxy. For all the details, see [[wikipedia:Factitious disorder|That Other Wiki]].
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== Munchausen Syndrome ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' has the [[Too Kinky to Torture|five patients]] in "People of Unusual Tastes" that each kill themselves so that they can be treated and revived by Fran. They manage to even freak out ''Fran herself''.
=== [[Literature]] ===▼
▲== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Ethan Frome]]''. Zeena has Munchausen Syndrome.
* An episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' dealt with a woman with Munchausen Syndrome and the argument over if she was actually sick, or if all her symptoms were manufactured.▼
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* An episode of ''[[House (TV)|House]]'' dealt with a woman with Munchausen Syndrome and the argument over if she was actually sick, or if all her symptoms were manufactured.
** In general, it comes up as an early diagnosis from time to time. Of course, since every single episode has the [[Lethal Diagnosis]] trope in play, we shouldn't need to tell you how many of his patients ''actually'' have Munchausen's.
* The Australian Show ''[[Review
* The mother in "The Masks" episode of ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' was implied have Munchausen Syndrome. She complained about how she was braving through a serious illness to visit her dying father, and many other instances in the past were implied.
* In the ''[[BTS (band)|BTS]] Universe'', this is revealed to be one of {{Spoiler|Hoseok}} problems, as shown in a [[Freeze-Frame Bonus|easily missable shot]] of the ''WINGS'' short films. {{Spoiler|He initially seems to have narcolepsy and has had numerous collapses that had put him in dangerous situations, but, as he reveals in ''The Notes'', he just has a habit of taking sleep pills indiscriminately, not so much to fake an illness and get attention for it but to stay sleep as long as possible to escape his abandonment trauma}}.
== Munchausen's by Proxy ==
=== [[Film]] ===
* ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' had the ghost of a little girl who had died after being poisoned by her mother in order to gain sympathy from outsiders. After her death, the mother turned her attentions
* ''[[One Missed Call]]'' has Munchausen's By Proxy as the [[Dark Secret]] of one character.
* In ''[[Repo!
* ''Love You to Death'', a [[Lifetime]] [[Lifetime Movie of the Week|Movie of the Week]] about a young woman who after living all her life incapacitating ill discovers that she is in truth victim of Munchausen by Proxy and murders her mother in retaliation. It was inspired by the real-life case of Dee Dee Blanchard and her daughter Gypsy Rose.
▲== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[IT]]''. Eddie's mother uses Munchausen by Proxy to keep him under control.
* Another Stephen King example: ''[[Misery]].'' Annie's treatment of Paul (and the babies she murdered as a nurse) has shades of this.
* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]] short story "Monsters", one of the eponymous monsters is the protagonist's mother, who has Munchausen
* A particularly chilling example is [[Patricia Cornwell]]'s ''The Body Farm'', in which a teenage boy is murdered and {{spoiler|a woman, instead of feeling sympathy for his parents, is jealous of the attention they get and thus kills her own daughter in order to get the same attention and sympathy.}}
* A large plot point in ''Sharp Objects'' by Gillian Flynn.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Scrubs]]''. "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OClhuzy6d2o Don't smother your kids]".
* ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' had an episode where the unsub used his manipulation over his wife's health to prove that he had control over her living or dying.
** Another episode had an Unsub who forced his own son to
* Scully initially suspects the mother of a murdered child of this in ''[[The X
* ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' had this exposed in a case that actually centered on a thinly-veiled Michael Jackson analogue. The parental figure of the accuser is the one proven to commit abuse of the child.
* [[Hulu]] miniseries ''The Act'' is a more straightforward dramatization of the Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard case.
=== [[Web Original]] ===
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
* From the ''[[Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do In An RPG]]'' list:
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=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In ''[[Drawn Together]]'', Princess Clara spends an episode caring for Wooldoor and [[With Friends Like These...|making sure]] that he still needs to be cared for. The show even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this by having the bottle of pipe cleaner she feeds him say "Not to be used for Munchausen by Proxy" on the label.
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