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It's narcissism, that's it. It isn't rational to us because we don't place ourselves at the centre of everyone else's universe.
It is important to her that she feels she is right and doing good. Doing something she thinks she is supposed to, against Drs orders, means she gets to feel like a victim, a bullied mother being forced to stop seeing her sick son. She did it because she gets validation about the whole ordeal.
that never occurred to me
I am such a naif
I was thinking from the point of view of the patient
She would really think she was being bullied/is a victim ? I am gobsmacked.
Yes, she gets to be the victim to all the people who only know her and not her family. That's where the validation comes from because she can spin whatever story she wants, who is going to fact check?