aquascoot wrote on Apr 5^th, 2024 at 11:04am:


There's that legendary aquascoot compassion and understanding on display again for all to see.

I suppose we're lucky that you only work on a farm in Nowheresville, Outback Queensland (population: still 10) selling $2 bags of horse manure and not at Centrelink or the NDIS.

Being thankful for small mercies and all that, innit?

aquascoot wrote on Apr 5^th, 2024 at 11:04am:

Have you met her or even spoken with her Aqua?  Otherwise,
how could you confidently make this claim?

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I'd be interested to know how you define such a person Aqua.
What criteria do you use?

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Do you have any actual medical evidence supporting this?  Or
when you say "sounds like", are you simply guessing?

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I'm assuming you mean vexatious?  Anyway, in what way would you
describe her claim as being so?  Do you think she's lying blatantly,
or the symptoms she describes aren't consistent with those known
to accompany long COVID?

from wikipedia


Primary gain
Primary gain produces positive internal motivations. For example, a patient might feel guilty about being unable to perform some task. If a medical condition justifying an inability is present, it may lead to decreased psychological stress. Primary gain can be a component of any disease, but is most typically demonstrated in conversion disorder — a psychiatric disorder in which stressors manifest themselves as physical symptoms without organic causes, such as a person who becomes blind after seeing a murder. The "gain" may not be particularly evident to an outside observer[citation needed].

Secondary gain
Secondary gain can also be a component of any disease, but is an external motivator. If a patient's disease allows them to miss work, avoid military duty, obtain financial compensation, obtain drugs, avoid a jail sentence, etc., these would be examples of a secondary gain. For instance, an individual having household chores completed by someone else because they have stomach cramps would be a secondary gain. In the context of a person with a significant psychiatric disability, this effect is sometimes called "secondary handicap".[2]

Tertiary gain
Tertiary gain, a less well-studied process, is the benefit that a third-party receives from the patient's symptoms.[3] It includes gaslighting wherein a person, such as a family member or healthcare worker for financial or other reasons, manipulates a patient into believing that they are ill. Tertiary gain can also be received when, for example, a pharmaceutical company runs advertisements to convince viewers they have symptoms which require treatment with the company's drug[citation needed].