2000 Factitious disorder is defined as intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms. The motivation is to assume the sick role. The usual history reveals that the patient percieves one or both parents as rejecting figures who are unable to form close relationships. It is here that the similarity with depression ends. Factitious disorder is a clinical paradox that patients with this disoder simlate serious illness and seek and submit to unnecessary and sometimes painful treatment while they deny to themselves and others their true illness ans thus avoid the possible treatment for it.
Treatment is best focused on management than cure.
There is no consensus on what type of treatment is most beneficial. No specific psychiatric therapy has beeneffective in treating factitious disorder, although a few cases of individual therapy have been reported. Information contained within this forum is intended solely for general educational purposes and is not intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice relative to your specific medical condition or question. Only your physician can provide specific diagnoses and therapies. All rights reserved.