What is Malingering?

Malingering describes the behavior of an individual who either pretends to be mental or physical illness, or significantly exaggerates his symptoms to gain some type of external benefit. Such advantages may include off -time work; avoiding military service; or obtaining funds for insurance, court proceedings or donations from others. Malingering is not mentioned as a mental illness in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders IV (DSM-IV), because it is usually considered an act of deliberate fraud. However, it can be observed in individuals with an antisocial personality disorder who can manipulate the medical system and other people to avoid duties or commit scam.

Malingers seeks to avoid taking responsibility for themselves and to benefit their actions or in some way by pretending to be sick or more ill than in reality. In some cases budE Malinger claim that he has medical symptoms that do not actually exist or pretend to be mentally ill. He is fully aware of his fraud and can develop a number of strategies aimed at cheating people in authority and medical staff. A classic example of this fraud would be a child who does not want to go to school, so he holds the thermometer near the bulb to deceive her mother to think she has a fever. Maninger, who wishes to pretend mental illness, can act as if he was disoriented and intentionally could not answer the questions of common knowledge, such as what year or identity of the ruling politician in his country.

Some healthcare professionals have developed ways to detect Malingering and separate from real mental and physical illness, as well as conditions such as somatization disorder in which the patient actually suffers from physical symptoms. Another condition that could ever be confused with Malingering is the state of the real porThe hand in which the patient can intentionally take steps to become ill or, alternatively pretending to get attention and become the subject of compassion. While Malinger deliberately pretends his illness to avoid responsibility or to obtain financial compensation, individuals with somatization disorder actually experience symptoms, while those who have a real disorder are looking for emotional care rather than some kind of tangible reward or avoiding unpleasant duties or experience.