Sickness is a MERCY from Allah swt

Adult Munchausen Case 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCIsnXtiOHQ

Here is an adult case in which she started to be hospitalized when she was 18 after being hit by a car. Since then, she developed a Munchausen Syndrome due to because she loved the attention that she got when at first she got admitted. And hospital became the first place that she liked. After that, she tried many ways to harm herself so that she can be hosptilaized again, to the extend that she got admitted for more than 30 times.

From this story, it can be seen that M syndrome is so dangerous that if we do not know the right way of doing things, or you do it wrongly, you may harm your own body, to the extend that it may cause fatal or death, in which i believe the patients of M syndrome do not want to face. But because of the "wanted" feeling of wanting to be hospitalized and getting attention from the doctors, patients of M syndrome will do everything that they want to hurt themselves in which it contradicts with the islamic teaching.

From the view of Islam, sickness is a MERCY from the Almighty, Allah swt. He wants to test us, whether we are being patience (sabr) or not. Not olny that, Allah will forgive our sins if we fall sick. In a hadith, Rasullullah saw said: 'Whenever a Muslim experiences any hardship like sickness (etc.), Allah Ta'ala wipes away his sins just as a tree sheds its leaves during autumn.' (Bukhaari and Muslim).

In a nutshell, we need to take care of our body, so that we can be healthy and can do a lot of 'ibadah, IN SHAA ALLAH.

Till then....thank you for reading.


~uda hajar~

Ask a doctor,

 Facts about munchausen. good for better understanding rather than reading :)

Happy watching :D

M Disorder and DSM..

M syndrome

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DSM

Munchausen's syndrome entered the DSM classification for the first time in 1980.Therefore, it is likely that this condition is underdiagnosed. It is thought that people with FD feign illness or injury not to achieve a clear benefit, such as financial gain, but rather to gain the sympathy and special attention often given to people who are truly ill. People with FD are even willing to undergo painful or risky tests and operations in order to obtain special attention from others. Munchausen's syndrome is considered a mental illness because it is associated with severe emotional difficulties. Cases of Munchausen's syndrome often result in expensive and unnecessary medical workup.

poor me..

The DSM-IV-TR requires that the following three criteria be met for the diagnosis of FD:

1. Intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms
2. Motivation for the behavior is to assume the sick role
3. Absence of external incentives for the behavior (e.g., economic gain, avoiding legal responsibility, and improving physical wellbeing, such as in the case of malingering).

Other factors that indicate an illness is factitious are listed in Table 2. Differential diagnoses and essential differentials are listed in Tables 3 and ​and44.

Table 2

Factors that raise the possibility that the illness is factitious

Table 3

Differential diagnoses of FDs

Table 4

Essential differential of factitious disorder, malingering, and conversion

The DSM-IV recognizes the following types of FD:

• FD with predominantly psychological signs and symptoms
• FD with predominantly physical signs and symptoms
• FD with combined psychological and physical signs and symptoms.
• FD not otherwise specified, which includes those disorders with factitious symptoms that do not meet the criteria for FD. The DSM-IV places FD by proxy (i.e., Munchausen's syndrome by proxy) into this category, defining it as “the intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms in another person who is under the individual's care for the purpose of indirectly assuming the sick role.
  
  
  
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  -Shahida-

so, this is how people with M syndrome

Pretending ill or even exaggerating it, is the action plays by patients with M syndrome.The condition should not be confused with hypochondria, which is also a psychological ailment primarily defined by a fear of illness – this leads to the sufferer interpreting normal bodily functions or minor aches as symptoms of something much more serious. Munchausen’s also has nothing to do with malingering – where a person fakes being sick in order to gain benefit, such as monetary compensation.People with M syndrome like to be in hospital setting.

What are the symptoms?

People with Munchausen’s Syndrome can show different types of behaviour, such as:

• Pretending to have psychological symptoms: for example, claiming to hear voices or claiming to see things that are not really there.
• Pretending to have physical symptoms: such as chest pain or stomach ache.
• Actively seeking to make themselves ill: such as deliberately infecting a wound by rubbing dirt into it.

Some people with the condition may spend years travelling from hospital to hospital  and faking a wide range of illnesses. When it is discovered that they are lying, they may suddenly leave hospital and move to another district. They have the capacity to be very manipulative and, in the most serious cases, a person with the condition may undergo painful and sometimes life-threatening surgery, even though they know it is not necessary. There have been several cases where people have died due to complications arising from such treatment.

It is not exactly known how common Munchausen’s is because many sufferers successfully manage to convince medical professionals that they are actually ill. But it is also possible that the condition is over-diagnosed because the sufferer may travel from hospital to hospital.

http://www.celebrities-with-diseases.com/health-conditions/munchausens-syndrome-15653.html

-shahida-

Did You Know?

The name 'Munchausen's Syndrome' was derived from the name of a German nobleman, Baron von Munchausen, during the 18th century. His real name is Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Munchausen.

Baron von Munchausen told many impossible stories about himself, in which later the stories were published as 'The Adventures of Baron Munchausen'. The fictional Baron's exploits that was usually narrated by himself focuses on his impossible achievements as a hunter, warrior, and traveler (including rides on cannonballs and trips to the moon).

Even before his death, Munchausen's reputation as a storyteller was exaggerated by several writers, in which gradually formed a fully fictionalized literary character that was usually simply referred as Baron Munchausen.

This is one of the upset story about M Syndorme, The treatment of patinets takes long time and it is really hard :(

Vid Project

Salam,Hi,Hello world,

To instill the awareness of this syndrome, we decided to do the video project which at the end,it might help to educate many people about Munchausen Syndrome.

About our project,
The puppets!
Some behind the scene captions,

 "Meet me as a main character!"

"I do look very cheerful, right?"

"Ahh, I'm caught into camera!"

"Oh, hi everyone!"

Meet all the characters soon. They will be right back with err their hair ;) (if you notice they are hairless)

have a nice day everyone! 

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