Are you honest with yourself?
Ever fake a headache to get out of work? What about rating your pain on the scale of 1-10 an 8 rather than a 2 on anything which may hurt? Do you say you are depressed and you are not? Go to the ER to get some narcotics "just because?" Go to the doctor for pills for things you feel are wrong for just about anything you want to correct?

It feels like it is so much easier to have a physical illness with a diagnosis than to have anything else than a psychiatric diagnosis, in my opinion. Incredibly difficult to accept if you are not faking it to gain some pills.

Somatoform Disorders are interesting that way and it can be as basic as when you get anxious you will get a headache and it can turn into a migraine and you don't realize it. It happens to many people. It is called a somatic response. Did you realize that is a Somatoform Disorder? Many people in the US go to the doctor for the physical part of the disease rather than the underlying stress or anxiety provoking thing or even resolving the problem causing the stress if it is possible.

I am told I have somatic symptoms which I accept.

However I was told I have FD or Munchauesen's. Been evaluating every action in my life I can think of but my life is too long to figure out every interaction and if it was a time frame the MD is referring to or 1 diagnosis as I can't figure out the reason(s) I have the diagnosis.

Perhaps the why isn't important. It is a doctor stating to me, the patient, I am showing signs of a FD. Once my ego was checked I decided to take the diagnosis and use it as a tool in my life as to whether or not I can figure it out and I am not going to read my medical record as I can't do anything about that. I don't feel caught but rather there is an opportunity. Whether or not I have the disorder as described by the DSM is for the doctors but what I can do is get real with myself and understand a doctor sees a pervasive pattern which isn't normal or there is something wrong here and they wouldn't put this out there if there wasn't something very wrong or a behavior which isn't abnormal.

I've been leading a better life the last couple of years for the most part by not going to doctors all the time. Also, there are behaviors which are disruptive I am making goals because it is affecting my life or has and I've been miserable. Only I can change it. They all know there are some real things going on and they are not challenging this. So I'm going to just stop proving myself and stop looking for evidence of whether or not I have this FD.

With reading from another person which is also suffering I can see the person isn't a bad person. Smart. Intelligent. Rewarded in wrong ways. As people we are molded as children and as adults we are trying to take accountability but as adults there are not mentors to find. First we need to identify there may be a problem.

Adulting blows. But I am glad it isn't too late and the change started prior to today. The recovery and change started.

After reading to set the record straight someone with FD doesn't just wake up and think it would be great to have a disease or symptoms. That is malingering.

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