Name: 熱播紀錄片「高校簡訊詐騙」背後竟是孟喬森症候群？用吉普賽・蘿絲案例告訴你真相！(Münchausen syndrome by proxy - Gypsy Rose Case Study)
Uploaded: 2025-09-04T21:01:20.000Z
Duration: 5 min 2 s

Hey, Psych2Goers, and welcome back to another video.

嘿，Psych2Goers，歡迎再次觀看影片。

Before we start, we'd like to give you a huge thanks for all of the love and support that you've given us.

在開始之前，我們要對你們給予我們的關愛和支持表示衷心的感謝。

Psych2Go's mission is to make psychology more accessible to everyone, and you help us do that.

Psych2Go 的使命是讓每個人都能更容易地接觸到心理學，而你可以幫助我們做到這一點。

On the surface, she was a girl bound to a wheelchair, suffering from deadly illnesses in the care of her loving mother.

從表面上看，她是一個被綁在輪椅上的女孩，在慈母的照顧下忍受著致命疾病的折磨。

Things were actually much different than seemed.

事實上，情況與想象的大相徑庭。

Behind the curtains, there was a tragic play, one that would eventually lead to murder.

在幕後，上演著一出最終導致謀殺的悲劇。

Gypsy was a victim of an abusive household.

Her experience offers us a glimpse behind the curtains.

她的經歷為我們提供了幕後的一瞥。

What is the reality of living with an abusive parent?

與施虐家長一起生活的現實是什麼？

When she was only three months old, her mother, Dee Dee, began taking her to hospitals for checkups and tests, convinced that she had sleep apnea.

在她只有三個月大的時候，她的母親迪迪就開始帶她去醫院做檢查和化驗，確信她患有睡眠呼吸暫停症。

Even though the results were negative, Dee Dee refused to accept that her daughter was healthy.

儘管結果是陰性，但迪迪拒絕接受女兒是健康的這一事實。

As Gypsy grew up, her mother convinced her that she suffered from various illnesses, such as leukemia, muscular dystrophy, intellectual disability, seizures, and many more.

隨著吉普賽的長大，她的母親讓她相信自己患有各種疾病，如白血病、肌肉萎縮症、智力障礙、癲癇發作等等。

She also caused her to undergo unnecessary surgeries and take medication that caused her to lose her teeth.

她還讓她接受了不必要的手術，並服用了導致牙齒脫落的藥物。

A pediatric neurologist, Bernardo Flasterstein, suspected that Dee Dee was likely suffering from Munchausen by proxy, a mental disorder where a caregiver feigns illness in someone under their care for attention and sympathy.

兒科神經學家 Bernardo Flasterstein 懷疑迪迪很可能患上了「孟喬森症候群」的精神疾病。

This disorder allowed Dee Dee to gain both attention and monetary gain from the donations she receives as a result of pretending her child was sick.

這種病症讓迪迪既能獲得關注，又能從她假裝孩子生病而收到的捐款中獲得金錢收益。

And unfortunately, it's not uncommon for an untreated mentally ill parent to become abusive.

不幸的是，患有精神疾病的父母未經治療而施暴的情況並不少見。

A 2012 study showed that many abusive parents experienced mistreatment during their own childhood.

2012 年的一項研究表明，許多施虐的父母在自己的童年都曾遭受過虐待。

Later on, they developed personality disorders and continued the cycle of abuse with their own children.

後來，他們患上了人格障礙，並在自己的孩子身上繼續這種虐待循環。

To ensure she had Gypsy under her full control, Dee Dee kept her far away from her family's reach.

為了確保吉普賽完全在她的控制之下，迪迪讓她遠離家人的視線。

She made Gypsy believe her father abandoned her, that he didn't care about her, and was having fun with his new family, far away from his daughter.

她讓吉普賽相信她的父親拋棄了她，不關心她，正在遠離女兒的地方和他的新家庭一起玩樂。

In turn, this made it easier for Dee Dee to manipulate her daughter into believing her false reality.

反過來，這也讓迪迪更容易操縱女兒，讓她相信自己虛假的現實。

This strategy is often used by abusers in abusive relationships.

在虐待關係中，施虐者經常使用這種策略。

Domestic violence researcher, Claire Murphy, wrote on her blog that isolation is a pivotal tactic used in order to weaken the victims,

家庭暴力研究員克萊爾-墨菲在她的博客上寫道，孤立是一種關鍵的策略，目的是削弱受害者的力量，

prevent them from hearing other's perspectives, and to bring them into line with the abuser's beliefs and requirements.

阻止他們聽取他人的觀點，使他們與施暴者的信念和要求保持一致。

Abusive parents might turn their children against other family members, keep them from seeing friends, or even restrict their phone access.

施虐的父母可能會讓孩子反對其他家庭成員，不讓他們見朋友，甚至限制他們使用手機。

Because Gypsy was isolated and manipulated, nobody really knew what was going on.

由於吉普賽被孤立和操縱，沒有人真正知道發生了什麼。

In fact, when others looked at her room, all they saw was a loving, hardworking, single mother who gave all she had to help her sick daughter.

事實上，當別人看到她的房間時，看到的只是一個充滿愛心、勤勞的單身母親，她傾其所有幫助生病的女兒。

What was actually a selfish act of abuse, on the outside, seemed like the most selfless kind of love.

表面上看，這實際上是一種自私的虐待行為，但實際上卻是一種最無私的愛。

Dee Dee was hiding behind a mask, the same mask that abusive parents often wear.

迪迪躲在面具後面，就像施虐的父母經常戴著面具一樣。

According to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, it's common for abusers to hide their harmful behaviors in public.

據全國家庭暴力熱線稱，施暴者通常會在公共場合隱藏他們的有害行為。

They play a nice role and act like saints when other people are around, but as soon as they're behind closed doors, the mask slips.

當別人在身邊時，他們會扮演一個很好的角色，表現得像個聖人，但一旦關起門來，他們的面具就會滑落。

This in turn makes the victim even more isolated and reluctant to seek help, too afraid that no one would believe them.

這反過來又使受害者更加孤立，不願尋求幫助，害怕沒有人會相信他們。

In June, 2015, Dee Dee tried to make Gypsy undergo another unnecessary surgery.

2015 年 6 月，迪迪試圖讓吉普賽再次接受不必要的手術。

But this time, Gypsy was the one who took control.

但這一次，吉普賽人控制了局面。

When her mother was asleep, she let her secret online boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, into her house and led him to her mother's room.

當她母親睡著後，她讓她的祕密網上男友尼古拉斯-戈德約翰進入她家，並把他領到她母親的房間。

Gypsy hid in the bathroom while Nicholas killed her mother.

當尼古拉斯殺死她母親時，吉普賽躲在浴室裡。

Just like that, a once sick girl got out of her wheelchair, became an accomplice, and stepped out of that house forever.

就這樣，一個曾經生病的女孩從輪椅上站了起來，成了幫凶，永遠地離開了那所房子。

While Gypsy's actions were extreme and unacceptable, resulting in her being sentenced to 10 years in prison,

雖然吉普賽的行為極端且令人無法接受，導致她被判處 10 年監禁，

we can also acknowledge the dire circumstances she found herself in that highlighted the need for those experiencing abuse to find a way out.

但我們也可以承認，她所處的惡劣環境凸顯了遭受虐待者尋找出路的必要性。

While we don't condone what Gypsy did, we can use her story to help save others.

雖然我們不能寬恕吉普賽的所作所為，但我們可以用她的故事來幫助拯救其他人。

If you're in a situation where your parents are abusive, please know that it's possible to find freedom.

如果你正處於父母虐待你的環境中，請知道你有可能找到自由。

It's difficult when you're young and depend on your parents for things like money and housing, but one day you'll be able to get as far away as you'll want to, even having no contact if that's what you want.

當你還年輕，在金錢和住房等方面依賴父母時，這是很困難的，但總有一天你會想走多遠就走多遠，如果這是你想要的，你甚至可以不和父母聯繫。

You'll start your healing journey far away from those who hurt you.

你將遠離那些傷害過你的人，開始你的療傷之旅。

Meanwhile, please take a look at the resources in the description box if you're in need of immediate help.

同時，如果你需要立即幫助，請查看資訊欄中的資源。

Gypsy's now slowly learning to embrace her identity, her authentic self, free from her mother's influence.

吉普賽現在正慢慢學會接受自己的身份、真實的自我，擺脫母親的影響。

As she said in an interview with Dr. Phil, my mother taught me how to be a very good liar, and I'm changing that.

正如她在接受 Dr. Phil 採訪時所說，我的母親教會了我如何成為一個很好的騙子，而我正在改變這一點。

I don't want to be like my mother, and I'm nothing like her.

我不想成為我母親那樣的人，我一點也不像她。

Let her words remind you that your past does not define you.

讓她的話提醒你，你的過去並不能定義你。

You have the power to continue the story your way.

你有能力按照自己的方式繼續故事。