Question

A woman complains of an assortment of physiological ailments. You think that she is intentionally producing the physical symptoms to appear sick, which fills some psychological need. You would diagnose:

Answer 1

Answer:

factitious disorder

Explanation:

Factitious disorder is a psychological illness presented by people who pretend to have health problems, invent symptoms, claim that they are sick and behave as if they were very ill. This disease is considered a very serious psychological problem, because people who have it, go to the point of causing the symptoms of disease in themselves, even hurting themselves and causing problems in themselves.