it is called factitious disorder. Someone with factitious disorder seeks attention through perceived physical distress. They may fake their own illness, sometimes going to great lengths to create the appearance of symptoms, to research medical conditions, to alter medica...
Symptoms:Individuals may fake symptoms of psychological problems, such as acting depressed even if they are not, for various reasons such as gaining attention, receiving drug prescriptions, or avoiding work.Answer and Explanation: This is false. Such behavior would instead apply to...
that it is much easier to exaggerate existing symptoms than to feign new symptoms (Rogers, 1997), one could therefore understand how simple it might be for an adult to consciously or unconsciously over-endorse symptoms on a self-report checklist in order to obtain some type of secondary gain....