Factitious Disorder
Factitious disorder is a serious mental disorder in which someone deceives others by appearing sick, by purposely getting sick or by self-injury. Factitious disorder also can happen when family members or caregivers falsely present others, such as children, as being ill, injured or impaired.
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Wiki Number: W081
Diagnosis: Factitious Disorder (Munchausen Syndrome for self) and (Munchausen symptome by proxy for another)
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Symptoms: person wanting a hospital stay pretends or exaggerates an illness even by contaminating samples, absesses,
Progression: Can become periodically or chronic as people age.
Causes: not malicious, but subconsciously wanting the attention they or another sick person got while hospitalized
Medications: SSRIs for mood stabilizers or antipsychotics
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4 CURRENT ARTICLES
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- Clinical considerations regarding suspected "BvFTD-by-proxy": a case seriesby Erin R Weinhold on October 28, 2024
A diagnosis of behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD) often relies on informant reports of significant behavioral changes. "BvFTD-by-proxy" describes situations of neuropsychiatric changes reported solely by an informant under circumstances that may raise questions regarding their objectivity. We present three cases of bvFTD-like symptoms reported by spouses, where progression was unclear, testing showed mild but stable executive dysfunction, and neuroimaging was unremarkable. The...
- Evaluation of the Prevalence of Factitious Disorder and Its Demographic and Clinical Characteristics in Psychiatric Inpatients in Iran; A Cross-Sectional Studyby Shabnam Asadi on October 14, 2024
CONCLUSION: This study showed that FD is underdiagnosed, and more attention is needed to the signs of this diagnosis in the assessments. Also, the clinical features showed that treatment should account for comorbid disorders.
- An Insight Into Adolescent Dermatitis Artefacta: A Case Reportby Manavi Gupta on October 7, 2024
Dermatitis artefacta (DA) is a rare and challenging-to-diagnose factitious dermatological disorder, most commonly affecting late adolescents and young adults. This case report presents a 17-year-old girl with a history of unexplained linear lesions on her face and abdomen persisting for 11 months, leading to significant school absenteeism. The dermatological examination was otherwise unremarkable except for multiple well-defined excoriations, erosions, and scarring, suggestive of DA. Dermoscopic...
- A psychopathological reading of the blood sweat phenomenon and religious stigmas: The case of Blessed Elena Aielloby Francisco Pérez-Fernández on September 19, 2024
Around 300 cases of stigma have been described since the 13th century. Hematidrosis, hemolacria, bloody otorrhea, vicarious menstruation, and Gardner-Diamond syndrome are dermatological manifestations that are also observed in cases of stigma. This paper presents the disconcerting circumstances in the life of the Blessed Elena Aiello. From 1923 until her death, she suffered severe hematidrosis blood sweating on her forehead, hands, feet and knees, just as stigmata appear at the crucifixion of...