New poster but been lurking for ages.
just been on bryonys insta. I know someone mentioned her covering her hair earlier on. Does anyone else think this was not for religious purposes and rather because of the attention she might receive when out and about because it makes her look ill? I really do think she has munchausens.
As for the pregnancy… there are so many people out there who would cherish a pregnancy and who have lost babies. She seems so ungrateful.
You could be right with the hair covering you know. I never really understood it. Hell cover your head if you want to. Tell people why you cover your head if you want to but I remember she came up with a whole host of reasons for covering her head that didn't make sense. Sometimes it was religious. Sometimes it's wasn't religious. Sometimes she was religious. Sometimes she wasn't. Didn't make sense.
Whenever I think about her and munchousens(sp???) I think like "I wonder if that would be a diagnosis she would love as well?" I'm remember the energy healing... Which she did over the phone!!!! The weird machine with the fingernail. I feel aweful because I know I shouldn't mock people's beliefs and maybe I shouldn't gatekeep what people are allowed to promote but I really struggle that she portrays herself as this womens health advocate but was also promoting a load of twoddle.
I don't know. You know sometimes when you're female and doctors do sometimes assume your being hysterical or think your symptoms aren't as bad as they are? I feel like people like Bryony really don't help that? Like TMI but I have periods. Sometimes they are painful. I've never never had an experience where I've been like rolling round on the floor in pain from a period and needed to RUSH to a and e or call an ambulance. Like I've had really really severe other pain from like injuries and frankly I'm not as dramatic as her when she has a period. I don't know I know sometimes I don't have a lot of empathy for her experiences becuase I don't believe her. I cannot believe that everything can be as bad as she describes.
When I'm being unkind I also sort of think that she has built her "brand" based on all these reproductive issues. I think she really expected to have loads of difficulty conceiving, which evidently she didn't. I've done the period math and she got pregnant relatively "easily" - other than you know the money, the medical procedure and the hycosi which was the MOST PAINFUL THING EVER. I think maybe to continue the brand of "I'm chronically ill" she had to have a difficult pregnancy. I believe she feels unwell. I believe she is mentally struggling. Pregnancy is hard. I don't believe she is nearly as ill as she makes out.
She was talking about "feeling faint" so she laid down. I've only ever fainted once because I hadn't eaten or drunk or sat down and was just exhausted and over hot... Blah blah blah. I didn't have time to think "I feel faint, I'm going to lie down here". I was doing things. I felt unwell. I fainted. Surely if you had such bad fainting spells where you "feel faint whenever you walk anywhere" you would have actually fainted at some point. You've got great odds if EVERY SINGLE TIME you felt like that you had an opertunity to find a stall with a comfy carpet or lie down in the back of a car perfectly with your skirt pulled down modestly over your knickers. I am in no way wishing that she did faint. Of course I'm pleased that she hasn't but I don't understand how you can be so lucky whenever you feel like that.
Hell she made this big fuss a few years ago about her asthma and how it was SOOOOO severe. If it was that severe she would have been deemed clinically extremely vulnerable during covid. So it wasn't as bad as she was describing it was. I think it was probably just common or garden asthma.
For me. Although the chronically ill thing is IRRATATING and it wastes the time of medical professionals it was (kinda) harmless. It's now she's bringing a baby into this I worry. I thought it was so telling that she finds saying "hello" to foster placements harder than saying "goodbye". Yes the hellos, the getting to know someone new is difficult. But if you have done it properly and you have given some of yourself to that child who deserves it, saying goodbye SHOULD hurt. There's a phrase they teach you when you train to be a foster carer, I can't remember what it is but its about how you have to hurt for that child. She seems to not be able to connect to ANY foster children. Yes your not going to love all of them but you definitely will love some of them. They're kids!!!! They're innocent little babies. Like they have evolved to make us love and care for them! I just really hope she is able to love her baby. I hope she cares for her baby.
I wish I didn't watch because I worry that this engagement actually encourages her. Like she wants to show off. She wants people to know how much she's suffering. In an ideal world I'd say "there's something wrong here, this is dangerous" and I'd stop watching. But I haven't. I think I might have to becuase I worry about this baby. Like I'm not saying Bryony is a BAD or an EVIL person. I think she's probably a good person but I do worry that her behaviour is problematic and that baby will have to deal with that and a bit of me worries that even though I'm only 1 person, if I'm encouraging her to do that, is that like a tiny bit my fault?
