Beloved and the Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard

Our conversation we had this past week about the dangers of overwhelming motherly love made me think of the this show I've been watching called "The Act," which is based on the true story of Gyspy Rose Blanchard, and the murder of her mother, Dee Dee (Also, sorry if I spoil this for some of y'all, but I knew about the whole case before this so it's not much of a spoiler lol). Many professionals believed Dee Dee Blanchard had some type of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, which Wikipedia says is "a condition derived from Munchausen syndrome, a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves. However, unlike Munchausen syndrome, in MSbP, the deception involves not themselves, but rather someone under the person's care."

Basically, Dee Dee raised her daughter Gypsy Rose into thinking that she had several severe health problems such as muscular dystrophy and leukemia, and made her live her life in a wheel chair although she was capable of walking. For 24 years, Gypsy was fed through a tube, visited countless doctors, and had taken so many different antibiotics and heavy medicines obviously not meant for healthy kids. She was also treated as a child, as her mother would tell everyone that her brain development was slower than others. This was proven wrong, however, when Gypsy eventually had it with her mother's constant physical and mental abuse when she stabbed her to death on June 14th, 2015. 

The only reason I could think of someone doing this to another human being is the whole "savior" complex some people attain. It was later discovered that Dee Dee isolated herself from her family as well as Gypsy's father, and Hurricane Katrina destroyed most if not all of her belongings. Gypsy it seemed was the only thing she had, and she wanted her to stay loyal and vulnerable towards her mother as long as she could.