News of Factitious Disorders

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I was born with Neurofibromatosis type one. A real condition. It caused me to develop severe scoliosis, so at the age of 3-4 I was in the hospital getting 7 spinal surgeries. From all my memory and medical paperwork I also have 3 blood transfusions and a feeding tube. At that time my mom was in and out of the mental ...

Hello, I am in desperate need of help. I am at my wits end.

I started feigning illnesses when I was about 9 years old and didn't even realize I had a problem until about a week ago. I would feign illness to avoid certain activities (going to school, housework, ect.). I think I've always had a problem with lying but my problem is that I not only deceive others but deceive myself just as ...

Hello, I am in desperate need of help. I am at my wits end.

I started feigning illnesses when I was about 9 years old and didn't even realize I had a problem until about a week ago. I would feign illness to avoid certain activities (going to school, housework, ect.). I think I've always had a problem with lying but my problem is that I not only deceive others but deceive myself just as ...

Im done with my mother, Im done with her for good. Ever since I can remember, there was suposedly something always wrong with her health, she didnt work cause she claimed to be too ill and had seen every specialist in town and beyond for her "debilitating" problems. It was only slowly, reaching into adulthood I have realised most of those could have not been true. I started reading medial books myself, catching her out ...

Hello,
I am acquaintances with a girl whom I believe has a factitious disorder.
It started last year. She began telling people about her rough upbringing, such as her mother's crippling bipolar disorder and her absent father, which surprised us all because her family has visited us many times and definitely did not seem to be out of the ordinary.
Then she started telling us about her IV drug use, which I, as a medical ...

I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice, i am very confused!

I used to work with a team that were an early intervention team for young people with borderline personlaity disorder, i was discharged because i reached the age that their service ir for. No mental health workers i have ever worked with have suggested i have munchausen but i have recently been trying to find out what i do have as ...

Hi. My name's Stacey. I came on here, not for support, but to share my family's story. I am sharing it because I know there are a lot of people out there with Munchausen and, unfortunately, many of them have children. Some of them have a lot of children because pregnancy is an excellent way for a woman to get attention. In searching for information about Munchausen, I have come across quite a bit of ...

i have factitious disorder and i've lied about a LOT of things...

it started as lying to my internet friends because i figure... they're just internet friends right? it's almost like it's not real... But now i became REALLY good friends with one of my internet friends... and i feel really bad for lying to them.

And now i started lying to my boyfriend... I feel so so terrible about it, but I can't tell ...

I am beginning to become more open to the possibility that there is something more wrong with me than I'd care to admit because of pride, fear of rejection as well.

I'm going to try and look back to my early self here as a self exploration project. I don't really want to get into the gritty details of my negative history, but suffice to say that I do have a history of being sexually, ...

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Since i was a kid (my earliest memories say between 2 and 3 years old) i remember feeling violently jealous towards people who got sick, or hurt, or just friends and classmates who would fall off running and hurt their knees. i would cry for like an hour, really hate them, and envy them.
At kindergarten, i remember pretending i was sick only because other were. or maybe just finding an excuse to ...