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Q: What is the mental disorder that causes you to fake sickness for attention?
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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder. It is not a condition that causes any sort of physical sickness that would lead to death.


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What disorder is a condition in which an individual acts as if he or she has a physical or mental illness when he or she is not really sick?

That is factitious disorder. They are suffering from a need of attention.


What is biological disorder?

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Does ADHD really exist?

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