The Poison of Maternal Love: How My Mother Invented Illnesses for Me. A Personal Story about Munchausen Syndrome

The first book of the Russian author about Munchausen syndrome.
Autobiographical history of the relationship between a daughter with a mother suffering from Munchausen syndrome.
History of survival, gaining maturity and freedom from a cruel parent.
An additional section with a commentary on a psychiatrist.


For parents, it is natural to take care of the health of their child, monitor his condition and consult a doctor in case of illness. But sometimes the mother, who assures the doctors that the child is seriously ill and needs constant care, drug support and procedures, is not healthy herself. Olga Yarmolovich’s mother had pronounced signs of a delegated Munchausen delegated syndrome - a rare state in which parents deliberately cause a disease in a child or invent them to seek medical help. Olga grew up and realized that her diagnoses were fictional, tons of drugs were unnecessary, and the examinations were crippling the body and psyche. She wrote a frank and piercing story about her childhood, painted with flowers of hospital wards. This is not just the first book in Russia about the delegated Munchausen syndrome, it is the history of survival, gaining maturity and freedom from a cruel parent and internal demons transmitted by inheritance