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[Connemmara]

I have a friend to whom I was talking to last night - and her and I had not spoken for about 2 weeks. She is a very repetitive person but anyway she was asking about my health and for every single thing that is wrong with me at the moment - "she has it too" - isn't there a name for that - it is not hypochondriac nor psymsomatic (think that is spelt wrong) it is like that every single time.

[vakayu]

Although that must be very irritating,you can alsways swop notes and offer sympathy!!

[AlwaysConfused]

A colleague at work is very irritating. If I have a headache, she has a migraine; when I have a cold she has the flu. She'll feed information from people then use it to exaggerate her 'illness'. At lunch, she will lay out her tablets on the table in full view of everyone (usually only piriton or paracetamol, but when it's antibiotics we all know about it!), and make sure everyone is looking when she HAS to take her pills!

[DTCwordfan]

Distract her AC and slip some laxative pills in amongst them.....

[AlwaysConfused]

Ooooh DTC you are naughty, giving me ideas!

[DTCwordfan]

Senokot Max should work very well.........

[sara3]

AC - sounds like you've been working with my mother!

[Psybbo]

sara, you pinched my line!

[albaqwerty]

AC, if substituting the tablets is a problem, take her a cuppa with dissolved laxatives in it.
(I do not recommend this at all)

[Svejk]

Half the people on AB probably have psychosomatic disorders.
I should say munchausen's is nearer the mark.

[DTCwordfan]

Which half of you has Munchhausens then Svejk, top or bottom half, or left side and right side?

[boxtops]

Psychosomatic's not the right term, IMO - she sounds like she gets a kick out of being more ill than anyone else. Not a well lady - poor self-esteem, this is her way of bring attention to herself.

[DTCwordfan]

boxie is correct

"psy·cho·so·mat·ic (sk-s-mtk)
adj.
1. Of or relating to a disorder having physical symptoms but originating from mental or emotional causes.
2. Relating to or concerned with the influence of the mind on the body, and the body on the mind, especially with respect to disease: psychosomatic medicine."

[The Builder]

Or possibly......... a valetudinarian ;o))

[AlwaysConfused]

Hmmm, she is always asking to 'lend' her a teabag (can't drink coffee as she is highly allergic!). might have to doctor a teabag or two.

[boxtops]

ask her who she's going to lend it to, and when you'll get it back :-)

I'm guilty of asking if I can borrow a tissue, nobody wants the dirty one put back in the box

[albaqwerty]

doctoring the teabags with a draw-string would be easier than one without.