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It depends on how you are doing it. If you just want to be somebody else for a little while and you know it, then no. There is a mental disorder called Multiple Personality Disorder, and it is where the person actually has split personalities and is being more than one person, but they don't know that. So it depends on if you know it or not, and what you are doing.

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Yes, it is. It has a special name called Munchausen Syndrome. It is a mental disorder in which a person repeatedly and deliberately acts as if he or she has a physical or mental illness when he or she is not really sick. Munchausen is considered a mental illness because it is associated with severe emotional difficulties.

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It would depend on the circumstances. If nothing else it is lying, unless you are an actor playing a role.

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no, it is an attention getter, sad to say these people need some TLC and find out why they are doing that.

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