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Originally Posted by daisy mae06

Not saying this is her (JOY) but I have been looking... there is also the stealing....
factitious disorder..purposely create or exaggerate symptoms of illnesses. They usually go about this in diverse ways. They can lie about an illness and/or fake symptoms of illnesses or injuries. In some cases, they actually hurt themselves or alter diagnostic studies, such as contaminating a urine specimen.

The reasons behind the actions are to feign the role as a "patient." This will assure them of receiving attention, nurturing, and sympathy that they feel they are powerless to obtain in other ways. Some factitious disorder patients will reach as far as taking hallucinogens and even inject themselves with bacteria to produce infections.

Factitious disorder and Munchausen Syndrome are closely related. Munchausen Syndrome is a psychiatric disorder where a person fakes disease, illness, or psychological trauma in order to draw attention or sympathy to him or herself. Malingering differentiates from factious disorder because the person fakes illness to attain external gains such as drugs or disability payments. Factitious disorder is diagnosed by the absence of malingering.

Or to attain a free dog