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Factitious disorders are really fascinating, if not a little scary, and are very fascinating to read. The main thing about factitious disorders is that the people who have these disorders make up symptoms for themselves or others. Often this is to get medical attention. There are two main types of factitious disorders. These are Munchausen syndrome, and Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Munchausen syndrome is a disorder where a person will harm themselves to create symptoms of sicknesses. Munchausen syndrome by proxy is when a person will harm others to create symptoms. Usually, the people they harm are their own children. These people will often go to the extremes and can be seen “giving the child drugs, tampering with medications, contaminating a feeding tube, or even smothering the child” (195 Comer). The results of which usually have intense results. Some of the most common things to happen are “bleeding, seizures, asthma, comas, diarrhea, vomiting, ‘accidental’ poisonings, infections, fevers, and sudden infant death syndrome” (195 Comer). People with Munchausen syndrome may “Many give themselves medications secretly. Some … inject drugs to cause bleeding” (194 Comer). The main reason that they would do this would be to cause fevers or bleeding so that they look sick. Often these people will defend that they are actually sick even when faced with the truth.
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