On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone. I am Brandon Chadwick and with me today we have

Andrea Dunlop. How are you? I'm great, Brandon. Thank you so much for having me on. Well,

thank you for being here, everyone. Andrea Dunlop here is an author.

You are the author of three books, and the three books are losing the light. She regrets nothing,

and we came here to forget all from Atria and Simon and Schuster. Your books have been featured in town and country,

bustle, in style, Us Weekly, Vanity Fair, People Magazine, and more. But you're here today to

talk about a podcast that you were the host of. A ridiculous amount of research has been put into the show and in interviews. And it is called

Nobody Should Believe Me. I have binged this podcast. It was an excellent podcast. And it's about

Munchausen by proxy. And you talk to family members, children of the people who were the ones that were the

victims of this abuse, detectives, doctors. It is a really thorough podcast this first

eight episodes that everyone should binge. Everyone who listens to our show, it's just something, even though this is not exactly

what we're dealing with on our show, you'll see a lot of similarities between these people.

And I'm sure there's some of you out there that have maybe dealt with this as well.

So I guess before we begin talking about your experience making this show, first I just want to give

a big trigger warning for this episode. We are discussing child abuse in this episode throughout this episode, including

the mention of a child's death.

And with that trigger warning out of the way, for everyone who's not familiar with these

terms, I guess let's just start off with what a factitious disorder is and then

what Munchausen syndrome is and then what Munchausen by proxy is so we can get everyone up to speed.

Yeah, absolutely. And thank you so much for all the kind of words about the show, Brandon.

Yes, so factitious disorders, that is the umbrella term for three different things. And so I'll kind of words about the show, Brandon. Yes, so factitious disorders, that is the umbrella term

for three different things. And so I'll kind of run those down real quick because they're all

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