The Mother Next Door Quotes

“It’s important to understand that factitious disorders are characterized by deliberate deception and are not cases of someone who is simply anxious or even having outright delusions about illnesses.”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

“The story of Sarah Delashmit—a woman who falsely claimed to suffer from a host of ailments including muscular dystrophy and breast cancer—was chronicled first by Sarah Treleaven for Elle, and then further explored by the podcast Sympathy Pains, which focused on the emotional, financial, and psychological fallout for her primary victims. No one who is ensnared in such a lie is ever the same. Delashmit was ultimately sentenced to eighteen months in federal prison after pleading guilty on several counts of fraud.6”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

“I can still viscerally remember how awful it was to be fourteen.”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

“I wish I could've helped her. I wish she would've asked.”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

“If abusers were monsters, inhuman aberrations, they'd be far less dangerous because they'd be so much more obvious to us.”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

“The well-being of children is one of the few areas where our culture lets women have complete authority.”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

“I will reserve a garden of butterflies for you to play in.”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

“Many people have a rightful mistrust of the medical system & find themselves needing to be dogged about receiving care.”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

“Consider that women were generally excluded from clinical trials until the 1990s, based on an earlier medical ethos that they were just men with 'boobs & tubes.”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy

“... & how money and the soft power of charm and beauty can blur all the lines.”
― Andrea Dunlop, The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy