When did faking it actually work out for you?!

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[mathewkelley]

Faking how to do high paying jobs, getting the job. Then taking a crash course in how to do the job, from the internet.

[nowayjose]

Severe anxiety can make you sick, or in the least feel like it. Sometimes it can feel subtle or serious, like your body is attacking itself. It can cause a range of symptoms, even if not from an actual condition

[Vixeyy.y]

The amount of people going “So the dad said you were faking and he was right. OP is in the wrong”. He was neglecting a child’s health. When he WAS actually sick, he was called a liar. He was called a liar even when vomiting. Do you know how dangerous that is?? When he faked once, he was called a liar. Why? For no reason. Everyone else could tell his symptoms meant something bad, except the father. That is neglect. Even if it was fake, what kind of person wouldn’t take them to get checked on?? Just because you think something is fake does not mean you’re allowed to push it aside and neglect your child. This is how children die. Children have died from sickness even when it wasn’t neglected.

[ArielAdams-ydtd]

I have anxiety I get panic attacks so bad that I faint or throw I'm sorry you

[Spooky_gooper]

Y'know when someone fakes a condition, it usually means they need help for something else, such as OP and their anxiety

[RMSWAG]

Hold up, let’s notice the fact that the cup just disappeared.

[Silly_Mousequarade]

Growing Up I was sickly, BUT there are times where I overexaggerate my symptoms so that I could get actual Rest. If I have a cold and a headache I fake nausea. If I'm nauseous I tell people My head hurts too. Being told that I faked my normal symptoms made me wanna actually fake more serious symptoms to actually get help or rest.
Because for some god-awful reason my family used to not let me stay home from school when I'm sneezing up a storm and when I can barely think straight. For some reason people think that we're faking instead of actually checking if we're fucking sick. It took me actually getting very sick to the point I fainted for them to take me seriously.

[Garfield-no-lasagna]

" pretending to be sick is the only way I ever got help" is way too real

[solarium_]

As someone with a rare, hard to diagnose neurological condition (functional neurological disorder) that was some good acting. For me it started with weird incongruent small stuff during my childhood till suddenly i was having weird seizure variants and brushing them off bc i had them for a while now. Few years ago I got on seizure meds and a lot of those weird little things, tripping in nothing and bumping into everything, seemed to either lessen or completely vanish overnight. Also, faking it was fine, you were just giving your feelings and problems new ways of expressing themselves because the original symptoms were being ignored. Im glad you got the help you needed, and the dictor seemed to catch on to the abuse, so you didnt need to pay for expensive neurology visits.

[PaolaKonzen]

It's good to have parents that really care... but it was difficult with the epilepsy, since mine is "calmer".. My eyes twiched and that was a seizure we didn't know. then at the mornings when I was getting ready to school my hand seized too but I didn't know anything about seizures, I thought it was stress and didn't tell my mom... until the day I had a tonic-clonic. I remember nothing about that day after I entered my bedroom to change clothes... just some flashes... they waited, because "everyone can have a seizure one day in their life". after some months, my mother started paying more attention, asking me if I could stop the eye twitching etc. I explained that I didn't even know that was happening. and then I had another tonic clonic... they took me to a neurologist (didn't like him but he gave me good meds that still work) and boom! epilepsy!
This and the fact that I went to the hospital due to anxiety messing up my heart beats making my hands to not work right! crazy right? Anxiety can get you to the hospital, crazy right??

[Golden_Eclipse_Paws]

As a person with severe sociak anxiety i understand. Ive had anxiety attacks at school(im bullied a lot for my acne and style) and bullying got worse. I had to get homeschooled

[sherlockholmes]

I actually did a similar thing. When I was 15 or 16, my knees were on fire anytime I moved them. Walking, standing, hell when I layed down I would barely move them because of how badly they hurt. I kept telling my grandparents and my grandfather would just say, "Yea right!" Or "You're just a little faker". And mind you, this man had been in a wheelchair, unable to feel anything from the waist down, let alone his knees, since I was 2. And one night, I had a little bit of trouble breathing, and since I had a severe breathing problem, that now requires oxygen, I called my bio mother and she called an ambulance for me. When they showed up there was a masive fight between me and the rest of my family. My father and brother were even saying that I said I coughed up blood and made the emt's check the trashcan in the bathroom to try and get them to not take me. But because of how I was screaming at him and what I was saying, they took me anyway. And at the hospital, they diagnosed me with the same yeast infection in my lungs that I had earlier that year, and spent the same amount of time in the hospital as I did the first time. 3 months, so I spent about half that year in the hospital for one thing. But after I went in, a nurse had read about my knee pain and decided to start giving me ibuprofen for it. I was literally unable to walk when they brought me in, because of the pain, and only 3 DAYS of having ibuprofen, I was starting to be able to walk again. But my balance and everything hasn't been the same since those 3 days in a bed, and I've been on oxygen ever since. This last 2 years I've been able to go without either tho, but everything I felt and went through was real. I just was playing it up a bit at the time to actually get some help. Sometimes when people fake something for attention, they're doing it to get the actual attention they need.

[Clown_cos]

Anxiety can actually make you sick. I used to spike fevers back in freshman year because I was just so anxious all the time. My heart goes out to OP

[roguejester]

Wish that OP's mother stepped in sooner, but at least she finally got a grip on the reality of how bad it was. It would have been much worse if it continued.

[StaplerXoxo]

One time i had a panic attack beforw a show (im a performer at a circus) and i ended up fainting, luckily my friend caught me but i wasnt feeling so good, my caretaker didnt care, just turned and left, while doing some flips i started hyperventilating and fell, i started having a seizure and noone cared but my friend, child support ended up coming and giving me a new family Let me know if you want the full story ❤

[Ipukeglitter]

I once stayed up way too late watching videos like this, and around 2AM, I heard footsteps outside my room. I live alone. Thinking it was just my tired brain messing with me, I ignored it—until the doorknob actually turned. I grabbed the heaviest thing near me (a mini fan) and crept over... but when I yanked the door open, there was nothing. Just silence and my hallway light flickering. I swear I locked that door. When I turned back it was eyes watching me. I never screamed so loud.

[Rhdwng]

When I was 23 I applied for disability, I knew I had anxiety and some other mental issues that prevented me from holding a job. My mother told me to "milk it", or make my issues worse. she was like the father here, and figured I didn't want to put in the effort, and coast by not trying. The gen X to melenials mindset in the early 2000's. I got on permanent disability because of her actions, then developed a disease than normally doesn't qualify for disability until 20+ years later. Thanks mom

[Dead-zpmp]

One time I faked vomiting a few months ago during me period.. and last week I met a gynocologist to listened to me. ACTUALLY listened to me.. I'm getting real help and I may be diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovaries syndom) at 17.. no more blaming me for my poor health, no more reasons for my family care doctor to think im only gaining weight because I eat terribly despite being active.. all that because I faked one time

[tinokerkhof]

Munchausen as a survival strategy, pretty sad but epic story.

[KisaEnders]

Yeah i have clinical anxiety too. I get panic attacks every other day or more, and i have meds for it. ❤❤❤