may take the form of complaints of chronic whiplash pain from automobile accidents. Whiplash claims are controversial. Although some people clearly do suffer from whiplash injury, others may be exaggerating the pain for insurance claims
Malingering public servants who never do any work anyway
Malingering
Malingering is difficult to distinguish from certain legitimate personality disorders, such as factitious diseases or post-traumatic distress syndrome
A. Bassett Jones has written: 'Malingering or the simulation of disease' -- subject(s): Medical jurisprudence, Malingering
J. E Fournier has written: 'The detection of auditory malingering' -- subject(s): Examinations, Malingering, Hearing
"Malingering" was the enslaving owner's term for a Black person who they believed was faking illness. Plantation physicians often recommended treatments of "veiled medical violence" to jolt the person out of fakery and back to work. The majority of doctors and plantation owners never considered that the deplorable conditions of enslavement actually contributed to, or caused genuine illnesses. Laziness was always the reason for "malingering' in their estimation--at least until the person fell dead. This is not to say that the enslaved did not use "malingering" at times to gain time to plan an escape. (See pages 30-31 in Harriet A. Washington's, "Medical Apartheid-The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present" for details).
malingering
It could be malingering.
Factitious is the intentional production of physical or psychological symptoms in order to be diagnosed as ill (making up some symptoms that are not existed, with the aim of being diagnosed as ill). Malingering has more to do with exaggeration of symptoms, meaning that the symptoms are there but not as the patient is describing them. Both have a common feature in which the intention is to gain a reward, avoid duties or financial compensation. Factitious does not bring any external reward but Malingering does.
It means pretending to be ill or disabled in order to avoid work.
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Ganser's syndrome is an unusual dissociative reaction to extreme stress in which the patient gives absurd or silly answers to simple questions. It has sometimes been labeled as psychiatric malingering, but is more often classified as.