Thursday, April 18, 2013

Facts And Tips Related To Munchausen Syndrome Cases

By Tamika Quinn


It is already a common knowledge how Munchausen syndrome cases are considered to be a form of factitious disorder. In this kind of disorder, the patient is acting sick. They pretend that they are having mental or physical problems even if it is not the truth. It is important that people around them knows how to deal with such situations.

For these patients, they will make up the symptoms of their fake illness. They will intentionally lie about it or make symptoms that are closely related to the illness that they wish to portray. In order to make it more realistic, they might burn or cut themselves. They might inject medication just to make up the symptoms that mimics the disease.

They will be creating the fake symptoms. The reason why they are doing this is so that they can get the attention and obtain sympathy from others. When others pay attention to them, this seems to assure them of their existence. With this in mind, they will go to all lengths just to get the attention of other people.

It is certainly a fact that they hurt themselves just to get the sympathy of others. However, the said act is not only limited to themselves. There is also the possibility of doing this by proxy. This means that they will hurt another being instead of themselves and make it seem like hurt person has the one with the fake illness.

The said illness is actually more prominent in people who are in their early adulthood. People whose symptoms of the illness manifest in are usually those who are in between their 30 years to 50 years of age. Most of the times, the ones who get the said illness are the men. It is more prominent in this gender.

For the treatment of the said illness, most people will agree that psychotherapy is the best choice. There are already lots of sufferers who were relieved of their sickness because of this kind of treatment. If not psychotherapy, then the person may also rely on the cognitive-behavioral therapy or the social services.

Those people who are said to have the said illness are proven to be saying made-up histories of sicknesses. The sufferer oftentimes give their loved ones, healthcare providers, and even their Internet support groups a falsified medical history. The worst case about this is when they claim that they have had cancer or HIV.

There are times when they tamper with the medical instruments just to avoid getting results showing their healthy state. They will manipulate the instrument for their own gains. This is so that they can skew medical results. They will even tamper the laboratory tests. They might end up contaminating samples for tests just so that it does not return a negative result for illnesses.

Be sure to identify the people with the Munchausen syndrome cases. This is so that he can prevent them from hurting themselves. One will need to help in preventing any further harm from afflicting the person suffering from this kind of illness.




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