Factitious Disorders

Factitious Disorders

In order to keep getting this attention, Danica makes herself sick. She eats food that she knows will make her vomit, and once or twice, she's taken drugs that will cause symptoms

Factitious Disorders

used to be called Munchausen's Syndrome

malingering

Davey joined the Army Reserves to help pay for his college; he never thought he'd be called up. But recently, he was called up to go into combat. Davey intentionally shot himself in the foot in order to be discharged from his duty

malingering

feign physical or mental illness in order to get a lighter sentence after they have committed a crime.

Galen

a famous doctor from ancient Rome, wrote about patients who faked or produced symptoms of illness

Baron Munchausen

__________ told tall tales about his adventures at war. His tall tales became even taller when recounted by other writers, so that a quasi- fictional character based on him became synonymous with someone who exaggerates or lies.

Richard Asher

an English doctor named _________ took the legend of Baron Munchausen and used it to describe patients who fake or exaggerate symptoms of illness. He was the first to use the term 'Munchausen Syndrome.'

factitious disorder

involves faking illness or making yourself sick without any external gain

factitious disorder by proxy

Callie doesn't make herself sick, but like Jane, she misses the attention she got when she was sick as a kid, so sometimes Callie gives her daughter a homemade concoction that induces vomiting. When her daughter begins to get sick, Callie rushes her to the hospital, where the doctors and nurses tell Callie what a good mother she is for bringing her daughter in

Ganser Syndrome

Callie's brother Jimmy is in prison. Last month, he got in a fight with another prisoner and was put in solitary confinement for a few days. When he got out, something was wrong. When someone asked him how many days were in a year, he answered that there were 371. Not only that, he seems really out of it and responds to voices that no one else can hear. Finally, his right arm is paralyzed, even though the doctors can't find anything wrong with it.