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Janice Erlbaum discusses Munchausen syndrome and her personal experience with the mental illness. Erlbaum was working in a shelter when she first met "Samantha," who had many serious health problems. Later she learned that the problems were not what they appeared to be. Munchausen syndrome is a mental illness in which a person has the symptoms of extreme medical conditions, but they cause all of the symptoms themselves.
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Chapter 1: Meet "Samantha"
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Chapter 2: Samantha's AIDS diagnosis
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Chapter 3: Speaking to Samantha's Doctor
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Chapter 4: The Munchausen's Diagnosis
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Chapter 5: Confronting Samantha
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Chapter 6: Finding the Munchausen Community
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Chapter 7: Reconnecting with Samantha
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Chapter 8: Extreme Munchausen's
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Chapter 9: Munchausen's Q & A
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