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What are factitious disorders?

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Factitious disorders are a group of mental disturbances in which patients intentionally act physically or mentally ill without obvious benefits. The name factitious comes from a Latin word that means artificial.

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What is the prognosis for a patient with factitious disorders?
Some patients have only one or two episodes of factitious disorders; others develop a chronic form that may be lifelong. Successful treatment of the chronic form appears to be rare.
What is a factitious disorder?
a factitious disorder or FD is where the symptoms are self-induced or made up (falsified).
How should one deal with factitious disorder?
Do you mean a FICTITIOUS disorder, as in one which does not really exist? Or did you mean a FACTUAL disorder, as in one which is a proven fact? Please click the "Improve" button beside this question...
Difference between factitious disorder and malingering?
Factitious is the intentional production of physical or psychological symptoms in order to be diagnosed as ill (making up some symptoms that are not existed, with the aim of being diagnosed as ill)....
How are factitious disorders diagnosed?
Diagnosis of factitious disorders is usually based on the exclusion of bona fide medical or psychiatric conditions, together with a combination of the signs listed earlier. In some cases, the...