Talk:Fabricated or Induced Illness

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[edit] Confusion regarding phrasing of who 'has' MSbP/FII

I've found that there are a few different ways phrasing methods used to connect MSbP/FII to the people involved, and not only are they inconsistent, some of them can seem like they are trying to excuse the behavior. Specifically, the problem is with phrasing along the lines of someone 'having' or 'suffering from' MSbP. The confusion seems to come from the question of which party involved is the one that 'has' MSbP, or if it's even proper at all to say that that MSbP is something that someone can 'have' at all. I've seen three distinct methods of phrasing used: that the 'caregiver' has MSbP, that the person in the caregiver's care has MSbP, or that MSbP is simply a 'behavior'. In my own thinking, the latter would be the best one to use. The first, while accurate in a sense, often sounds like an attempt to excuse the behavior, and the second isn't accurate at all - the person in whom an illness is fabricated is suffering from abuse, no more or less. - Pacula 16:49, 11 December 2006 (UTC)