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  2. Factitious disorder - Wikipedia

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    People with a factitious disorder may produce symptoms by contaminating urine samples, taking hallucinogens, injecting fecal material to produce abscesses, and similar behaviour. The word factitious derives from the Latin word factītius , meaning "human-made".

  3. Factitious disorder imposed on self - Wikipedia

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    People may fake their symptoms in multiple ways. Other than making up past medical histories and faking illnesses, people might inflict harm on themselves by consuming laxatives or other substances, self-inflicting injury to induce bleeding, and altering laboratory samples. [ 18 ]

  4. 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 ...

  5. A surprising number of people have faked a cancer diagnosis ...

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    Some people may struggle with a condition known as factitious disorder (formerly Munchausen syndrome), whereby they fake an illness because they want to be seen as sick by others, Thea Gallagher ...

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

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    Dr. Ramani Durvasula explains how a narcissistic friend or partner will fake illness in order to manipulate and control the people around them.

  7. Controversies related to ME/CFS - Wikipedia

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    Despite ample evidence that ME/CFS is an organic disease, many clinicians do not recognise it as genuine or underestimate its seriousness. [6] [1] [4] A 2020 literature review found that “a third to a half of all GPs did not accept ME/CFS as a genuine clinical entity and, even when they did, they lacked confidence in diagnosing or managing it.” [4]

  8. List of diagnoses characterized as pseudoscience - Wikipedia

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    Drapetomania was a supposed mental illness that, in 1851, American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized as the cause of enslaved Africans fleeing captivity. [56] This hypothesis centered around the belief that slavery was such an improvement upon the lives of slaves that only those suffering from some form of mental illness would wish to ...

  9. Malingering - Wikipedia

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    Although malingering is not a medical diagnosis, it may be recorded as a "focus of clinical attention" or a "reason for contact with health services". [4] [2] It is coded by both the ICD-10 and DSM-5. The intent of malingerers vary. For example, the homeless may fake a mental illness to gain hospital admission. [5]