There really are very few individuals who can speak calmly and confidently from an informed perspective about what it is like to be an adult survivor of childhood medical abuse. I am one of the very few people who have come to a point in their lives where speaking about the abuse is neither retaliatory, vindictive, nor discovery-based and predominantly therapeutic in nature.
I can't really say definitively why I seem to be one of the few adult survivors of MSBP who are able to speak to the issue of surviving Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy abuse. Though I can make a few very well informed speculations. My childhood was normal during the first and most formative years of my life.
I am an amazingly stubborn and tenacious person. I was able to remove myself from the abuse, more or less, during my early teenage years. I studied a complementary set of Social Sciences that allowed me more than average understanding of interpersonal and intergenerational dynamics. An analytic mindset allowed me to distance myself from the situation and view many of the levels of behavior in which the MSBP operates. I have a daughter who I didn't want to raise in the way I had been raised, even before I understood what MSBP was, and conscously behaved as differently from my own mother as I could.
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