Pandaparesis

Belphegor is the sin of sloth, so she will do anything for a day off, i'm sure this includes fabricating illness, but also it's just so fitting for her personality and role in hell. Some people theorize for her to have narcolepsy because she can be seen repeatedly falling asleep out of nowhere but i think it's much more likely she simply does that because sin of sloth will sleep whenever she feels like it. It wouldn't make sense for her to have narcolepsy since then it'd be an illness and not real sloth, tho i have no doubt she would pretend to have narcolepsy as an easy excuse. Sloth realm seems to specialize in medicine, as both the hospital as well as medicine production are directly linked there, Belphegor is the leader and creator of Sloth realm so it had to be by her decision. Given she is immortal she has very little use for a hospital, unless she just likes them. She could have just as well made a realm with only beds and pillows, deliberately choosing a hospital tells me this fills some deeper need for her, beyond just liking rest.

And to be clear, i don't think munchausen or laziness is a "sin", or morally wrong. I don't think having munchausen is even needed for Belphegor to carry out her sloth tendencies, instead i think it's something she suffers from as an indirect result of being the sin of sloth. She has a constant inexplainable desire to rest without a limit or an explanation to it, this is a trait that could cause someone to develop coping mechanisms similar to seen in munchausen. My personal theory is that she can't help being the sin of sloth or change her ways, but since she still understands that she is the "laziest being in all of creation" she isn't entirely immune to guilt and her munchausen has formed as a coping mechanism for both public shame as well as personal guilt. She clearly wants to be sick because then she has some other reason to rest than just being lazy, but she is too powerful to be physically harmed or get sick.

Belphegor from Helluva Boss has Munchausen Syndrome

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I'm so tired, all the time, it makes me want to be ill. I don't know with what. The sort of thing that puts you in bed. In hospital, even. Something where I can't just get up. Something no one expects you to keep under control or manage. Something that forces others to do the managing.

Because otherwise who would possibly spare me a moment of their worthless sentimentalities?

I say that with a little bit of humor behind it but I’m genuinely so thankful for this account and what little exists of the Munchausen community. I’m lucky enough to have extremely supportive and understanding friends that already know all about my experience with Munchausen. But I feel like the ridiculous amounts of what…Dopamine association? That comes with the attention seeking? It’s such a specific sort of joy. I feel like no amount of understanding could truly convey what that’s like from an outside perspective. It’s never been comparable to anything else to me.

Knowing that there are people out there that know exactly what I’m talking about puts me at ease. I’ve popped my head in from time to time but never bothered to sign off for some reason. I suppose my time is now! Thank you again for everything you do :)

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This was very sweet, Ringmaster, thank you so much. I'm also very happy to see so many people who have resonated with this little blog of mine. What started as a personal vent blog has blossomed into an entire community and while it's kind of daunting sometimes I've never once regretted this outcome.

I've discussed it at length before, but I am still of the opinion that "by proxy" is a misnomer and could be argued to not even be a real thing, Anon, as the "by proxy" denomination seems to be used purely for the benefit of the masses having yet another scary boogeyman abuser label to gawk at. It carries the cadence of "narc abuse." I really do wish they would drop the diagnosis already—I mean, they've already got a different term that doesn't demonize the mentally ill: medical abuse.

But even if they did, I'm afraid the true crime sensationalists always eat that shit up. They've got their claws so deep into it that our own disorder is a footnote at best among the mainstream. A shame.

The closest thing I get to relief is in the confines of debilitating illness where I don't have to figure it out.

And now it's slowly poisoning me and I'm just supposed to let it.