Brain Fact: Munchausen Syndrome by proxy
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Brain Fact of the week: Munchausen Syndrome by proxy
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| 0:21.2 | at Apple.com forward slash hellovette. In fact of today is Manchausen's syndrome and also Manchausen syndrome by proxy. |
| 0:48.0 | So what is it? |
| 0:49.0 | And the reason I'm talking about this is because I was listening to, I'm currently listening |
| 0:53.0 | to a podcast. |
| 0:53.8 | It's one episode |
| 0:54.4 | released every week called Scamander. Fucking, if you know me, you know how much I love |
| 0:59.8 | listening to podcasts about scams, cons, all the above. Oh, live and breathe it. Pyramid |
| 1:05.8 | schemes. Love that shit so much. If you have a good one to recommend to me, please I'm all |
| 1:09.6 | ears. But this one's called Scamander and another one is called, oh, it'll come to me, something about magic, it'll come to me. |
| 1:16.7 | But it got me thinking that this is what I should do the brain fact on. So what is Manchausen's |
| 1:21.6 | syndrome? So it's a rare psychological and behavioral condition where someone makes up and even induces or fakes symptoms of illness. |
| 1:32.3 | So, oh, sorry, the podcast is called Believe in Magic. |
| 1:36.5 | So there's Believe in Magic and there's Scamander. |
| 1:38.0 | Go listen to both of them. |
| 1:39.3 | So it is listed as a psychiatric mental health problem, but there is generally nothing physically |
| 1:46.7 | wrong with the patient. And the origin of the name, it's after a German aristocrat called Baron |
| 1:52.6 | Manchausen, who was known for telling like wild stories and adventures of his past, which were not |
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