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  2. A Therapist Explains Why a Narcissist Will Fake Being Sick - AOL

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    In this specific instance, after being told by his wife that if he left she would stay, the narcissistic husband threw up at a party, and made the wife look like a neglectful partner.

  3. List of impostors - Wikipedia

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    Cartoon of the would-be explorer Louis de Rougemont, who claimed to have had adventures in Australasia. An impostor (also spelled imposter) [1] is a person who pretends to be somebody else, often through means of disguise, deceiving others by knowingly falsifying one or more aspects of their identity. [1]

  4. Factitious disorder imposed on self - Wikipedia

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    Factitious disorder imposed on self (FDIS), sometimes referred to as Munchausen syndrome, is a complex mental disorder where individuals play the role of a sick patient to receive some form of psychological validation, such as attention, sympathy, or physical care. [2]

  5. Factitious disorder imposed on another - Wikipedia

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    Factitious disorder imposed on another (FDIA), also known as fabricated or induced illness by carers (FII) and first named as Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP) after Munchausen syndrome, is a mental health disorder in which a caregiver creates the appearance of health problems in another person – typically their child, and sometimes (rarely) when an adult falsely simulates an illness or ...

  6. How to hit on someone in real life – without being a creep

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    Get it right, however, and you could wind up finding the love of your life. In short: the stakes are high. This brings me to the first tip for hitting on someone: read the room.

  7. List of Munchausen by proxy cases - Wikipedia

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    Esme Stoller from Love You to Death: a fictional cosplay fan and victim of her mother's Munchausen by proxy, told that she has cancer and developmental delays; Esme is loosely based on real-life victim Gypsy-Rose Blanchard. Pauline Whittier from Everything, Everything (film) treats her daughter Maddy for the immune disorder SCID. A doctor later ...

  8. Netflix's 'Hit Man' is inspired by a real story about a fake ...

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    Yes, and no. “Hit Man” is inspired by the October 2001 Texas Monthly article of the same name written by Skip Hollandsworth about the real Gary Johnson. According to the article, Johnson was ...

  9. Factitious disorder - Wikipedia

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    They may partake in this behavior in order to seek and maintain relationships or use the sick-patient role as a coping strategy in response to stressful life events. [ 4 ] If an individual did not form a healthy attachment to a caregiver as a child, there is a possibility that the person may develop factitious disorder in order to fulfill the ...