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A Strange Phenomenon - Anyone Else Experienced This Trait?

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Portia:
Hi Rob,  :) I brightened with recognition when I saw your name today because I wondered if you were still looking in. Hope you're as ok as you can be! - considering and all. Glad you posted above, it goes part way to explaining your situation last time you spoke. Good to see you, best, P

Ishana:
Rob,

Thank you for your reply.  That is exactly how I would describe it...she "glories" in the illness and injuries of others and herself.  Every minute detail.  How do you stand it?

I will try to read more of your posts in the past.

Thanks again for your message.  I really appreciate it!

Ishana

JustKathy:
Like Rob, my mother is also obsessed with all things medical. She associates working in the medical profession with "respect," which has always been something that she's craved. She tried to push me towards med school so that she could boast of having a doctor in the family, and when I refused she instead insisted that I MARRY a doctor so that she could still have that respect. She also enrolled in the Medical Office Assistant program at the local junior college, and now tells people that she is a "nurse." She keeps volumes of medical reference books at home and tries to impress people with her so-called expertise.

When a friend or family member becomes ill she can't stop talking about it and embellishes every detail. I never know what to believe (it's mostly lies). At one point she even announced that she had terminal cancer, which vanished after a hysterectomy. My shrink says there's no way that she could have survived "terminal" ovarian cancer. More likely it was a benign cyst. Again, exaggerated to the extreme for the sake of attention.

Kathy

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