Why Should People Fake Illness?

None of the people in this world who want to have a serious disease like cancer. But in fact there are certain people who pretend to be sick. In some cases inside and outside the country, people use sick excuse for avoiding a legal case in court or because the reasons for wanting to get sympathy and material.

What is the background pretending someone very sick?

As reported by LiveScience, Saturday (15/05/2010) in the year 2008, a woman named Dina Leone from Baltimore to give a surprising news for families and friends. He claimed to have been diagnosed with stomach cancer.

This 37-year-old mother wrote a note and its progress in a blog and Facebook. Thus he gained the support and assistance to help pay the maintenance money and fulfill a dying wish.

But everything is very tragic and a sham. Police conduct an investigation and found that hospitals that visited Leone does not have the medical records about him.

Leone has finally admitted that he only pretended sick for three years, so he was indicted on charges of theft and conspiracy.

Why do people have to lie and pretend to be sick?

The main motivation is usually a person admitted malingering is to gain sympathy, so he became the center of the attention, all desires can be realized and he was getting attention from old friends or family. But sometimes the falsehood was based on a desire to get a lot of money.

One case in point is a woman from Boston who claimed that Christian Cloughety cancer in friends and family. Sympathy for the people who held a fundraiser on his behalf and get the money of about U.S. $ 50,000. But it was reported that he used the money to buy new cars and breast implants.

But there are some people who actually have the disease or disorder, in this case is not cancer but a mental illness known to man-made disturbances (factitious disorder).

People with this disorder to pretend to have a disease (usually in the terminal one) and often try hard to maintain such a joke.

A person feels that he has a disease, but in some cases involving the most tragic fact of her children.

One type of artificial disturbance is Munchausen syndrome, which involves people such as children or others who suffer from a disease that made him have to take care of these sick people.

Examples in the year 2003, there were parents of seven year old girl named Hannah Milbrandt told friends and family that her daughter had cancer.

The mother, Teresa Milbrandt did everything to make him look sick. She shaved her head to mimic the side effects of chemotherapy, her daughter put a protective mask because her immune system was considered to be disturbed and drugged his daughter with sleeping pills to make her feel dizzy.

Even worse was that he said it will not look past his teenage daughter and convinced her son will actually die. Until finally he provided aid donations about $ 10,000 for his family in April and December. But it is known that the girl was not hurt.

Although Munchausen syndrome is a rare disorder, but this is hardly unique. Two years before a women from Indiana collects more than U.S. $ 6000 by saying that her daughter was dying of leukemia affected.

Artificial disturbance was likely more common than people realize. Some cases are found as a joke and eventually just a sham. But there are also cases of people tend to suddenly start getting better for fear of arousing suspicion action.

Malingering disorders can menimbukan implications for people who actually have cancer or other diseases, as this could lead to mistrust of people towards the victim's real or illness.