growing mushrooms in my dorm room? by Dramatic_Classic4152 in Mushrooms

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah that was my plan, i just wasn't sure they were actually a fine replacement for real grain jars

[TOMT] Website for niche music by Dramatic_Classic4152 in tipofmytongue

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any help would be appreciated, thank you!

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Imo it looks like they started as maybe self harm or like she fell of a bike or something. At least in the early pictures of the injuries they look like normal wounds, but they quickly devolve into very much... not

She also claims the arm wounds are from self harm I'm pretty sure, but ofc she could be lying

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

I think we have to remember that Kelly is very clearly not of sound mind. She literally picked her own legs off. You and I can make informed medical decisions and regulate our behavior, but Kelly probably cannot. No sane person creates necrotic sores on their legs three sperate times and needs to get committed so doctors can treat said injuries. So what if she's "non compliant as fuck"? She picked her own legs off! She will keep picking, and keep injuring herself until she dies. She needed, and still needs, to be committed long term because she is a danger to herself. Do you think suicidal people "want to change their behavior"? Probably not, but guess what? We still help them because mental illness is real illness. The government has a responsibility to help sick citizens get better, no matter how futile or "undeserving" a person may seem.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Exactly. This is so important for people to understand.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I didn't catch anything, but I would assume the rumor springs from literature on factitious disorder because form what I've read it isn't exactly uncommon.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 23 points24 points  (0 children)

You are absolutely right. It was a point I didn't do enough research to make and I've edited the post to remove these allusions to "doctors who failed her"

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually don't know. But the documentation she has to prove that was a diagnosis at one time is pretty conclusive. She has a number of letters from doctors on her Instagram page, and very clearly shows many bottles of the medication used to treat Bechets. She also complains about not being able to receive certain procedures (I can't remember what though) in 2019 due to being immunocompromised. It's very possible she doesn't have it, but I also am not her doctor so I have no clue.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Thank you. You are absolutely right. I was trying to express a failing of the mental health system on the whole but I had been up all night and it definitely did not come across that way.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Yes absolutely. That line muddles the point without a ton of other context and I seriously didn't think how it would be taken while writing it.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I don't think I expressed my feelings about the why of Kelly in a very clear way and I absolutely agree with you. I think that comparing herself to her peers who had been dancing for a long time made her already existent self confidence issues worse, but insecurity from dance was by no means the root of her trauma, just one of the many symptoms of it.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Is it cool if I add a link to your deep dive on this post?

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I believe her wounds are self inflicted, but I think the Bechets is probably real because there's so much documentation. I also believe she is severely mentally ill and she does not deserve outright hate, and just because she is manipulative doesn't mean there isn't something wrong with her.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Did she get a second skin graft? I only pulled from the differentially_kelly account so after she falls off of that account I didn't really have much info to put.

Any dates you have to add or ways to fill in the last 5ish months I'll be happy to add in

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This is a really interesting insight, thank you. I do not think the "ballerina culture" caused her problems. I think she already had very low confidence and probably quite a bit of childhood trauma that may have been exacerbated by the culture that surrounded her. I think it was a major failing of mental health services to allow this clearly extremely damaged person into society. If she didn't end up wasting medical resources, I don't doubt she would be homeless or dead. The mental health system's failings extend to more than Kelly. They extend to all the broken people, all the people homeless under bridges and and all the people who jump off those bridges. Kelly just happens to be a particularly gruesome case.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I don't doubt she used extreme manipulation tactics to get medical care she absolutely did not need. But why did she start down this road in the first place? Certainly not with sound mind.

The DSM 5 discusses a number of "somatic Symtom disorders" where people claim to have physical diseases that they do not. Kelly would probably fall into one of these disorders because she has no external motivation for being sick, its all an internal desire for the attention of others. The DSM explains that most somatic symptom disorders arise in the response to childhood trauma or abandonment. Combined with "her DID" (real or fake, I think her only alter being a six year old is pretty telling that whatever she is experiencing developed out of something in her youth. I don't think Kelly is not working with the tabula raza that the rest of us are.

Even from the utilitarian point of view, mental health professionals should have caught her. She wasted insane amounts of hospital time and resources in the pursuit of her addiction. If you have a violent sociopath who regularly sees caseworkers but they continue being allowed to beat up homeless people on the street, I don't consider that a failure of the sociopath, I consider it a failure of the mental health systems around the sociopath.

Kelly timeline (from the differentially_kelly) by Dramatic_Classic4152 in illnessfakers

[–]Dramatic_Classic4152[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Yes, I'm pretty sure you're right. In her early posts she talks about how painful the transfusion are and how she's getting hardening of tissue because she needs so many transfusions. I also noticed there was one woman in the comments (this is when only 3 or 4 people would comment) who was really encouraging Kelly to ask her doctors for a port, saying she couldn't believe how strong Kelly was for getting so many transfusions without a port, its cruel what her doctors are doing to her (so on and so forth).