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Gaslighting Questions

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SeattleTransAndNonbinary ChoralEnsemble

Is Munchhausen's Syndrome by proxy a form of gaslighting? It's part of a domestic relationship in this case typically parent/child rather than spouses, an ongoing campaign to control the narrative and hide the truth, it's abusive, it undermines the person's education / social life / ability to participate in activities, isolates them by making them believe they're sick with all these diseases and possibly dying, and it makes them question reality (inducing sickness and then pretending to have had nothing to do with it is a lie by deception), but the perpetrators usually claim that they weren't intending to harm and that they sincerely believed the child or vulnerable adult had the illness (though whether they're being intentionally obtuse is debatable). So the intent criteria is a little up in the air. They might even develop a long term mental disorder like CPTSD from the stress and being in the hospital so often (can a gaslighter ever genuinely succeed in 'driving a person insane' like into a psychosis or depression that never goes away even after being separated from the person, or is it more of a self-limiting nervous breakdown type response on the part of the victim?)

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I think a positive of more people using this word, even if it's not always spot on, is that we're learning to stand up for ourselves instead of being stuck in abusive dynamics. Without "gaslighting" as a starter to psychology insight, I think a lot of people would've kept accepting undue blame for relationship troubles