How To Fake Ptsd - Something Scary

[anthony]

There is a thread in the PTSD forum discussion on "Do you fake PTSD" or something like that, which of the top 10 viewed threads in that entire section, it sits #9 at present and is also highly searched via search engines, more to the point "how to fake PTSD" is highly searched. Whilst that thread sits #1 on Google, the scary part is that it receives several hundred visitors searching it from Google per month... obviously wanting to fake PTSD.

Go figure that one out? I'm scared just a little...

[DLMURL]https://www.ptsdforum.org/c/threads/do-people-fake-ptsd.9561/[/DLMURL]

 

[Monarch]

that is freakin' nuts! Why would anyone wanna fake it, like it is a fun thing.

 

[goingonhope]

Ya' Anthony, ..........*that is scary* !!!

I got to trust though that there are still countless, countless, countless, people just living life, and while not engaged in whatever type of insanity that 'wanting to fake Ptsd' or 'attempting to fake ptsd' would be called; I think I'll go to bed shortly, while choosing to think about and consider those people just living their lives. That other apparent reality is a bit *to grim*, for me.

It seems to me that based upon such evidence and info., the responsible parties for creating MH diagnostic labels, just might consider coming up with a label for the pattern of insanity you mentioned. For crying'out'loud ...wanting to fake Ptsd and I now imagine some actually going ahead and attempting doing so; Just my opinion, but that's really out there. Maybe, I'm just ignorant and need someone to share a better understanding with me, of just how to understand and empathize with anyone in such a condition.

Ah', anyways I've got to attempt sleep soon, and will be mindfully doing my best to consider the many living, willing and striving to live reasonably normal lives.

Again, that is scary!

 

[externalsmile]

Mind boggling.

Bloody nutters!

I'm lost for words so can't think of anything constructive to say!

 

[Marlene]

There's always some out there that think they can build a better mouse trap/beat the system. My daughter's ex came back from a tour of Afghanistan and faked symptoms of PTSD (he admitted to it) to get out of the army because he had reenlisted and then had a change of heart. Then as they were giving him a medical discharge, he changed his mind and wanted to stay in...too late, he's out.

There are people out there who will try anything to get onto disability so they can be government funded slackers. What cracks me up is that they spend more time and energy learning to fake something, faking it, jumping through hoops, ect. to get this small check than if they just had a job. These tend to be the same people who feel the world owes them everything and they shouldn't have to put forth an effort to get it.

It's a new twist on an old con game.

 

[amethist]

I don't know what to say to this, I know some who fake back injuries, and such like, but this is taking is too far. They would have to be damn good actors to keep it up 24/7 though, there is no way anyone could keep this up for ever.

Ha but they will be the ones that come back in a few months time spouting that they have found a miraculous cure. Yea right as if.

Maybe the time has come to insist on the MRI, to prove they have it. See how many back down then.

Reminds me of my husbands nephew, who thinks the world and his wife owes him something, and he is still in his teens.

Amethist

 

[anni]

I remember that thread! It's the most annoying thing ever on the planet to get this forum Googled for these obvious purposes-Good Grief!

Makes me want to start a sham thread with that title and have a lot of swearing in it.

 

[a3a2]

This boggles my mind. Can't imagine someone wanting to fake something that I spent so many years trying to deny! Seems to me you'd have to do an awful lot of faking to get on disability!

 

[catjudo]

There are other ways to potentially profit from faking PTSD other than getting on disability. Also, there are likely some sick people in this world who just like the sympathy and attention they could get from something like this. They don't realize just how debilitating this disorder truly is.

 

[rjtransient]

I see that particular search result comes up along with "how to fake a mental disability". I've seen this before. ADHD: medications; schizophrenia: disability support. As Marlene said: It's a new twist on an old con game.

I'm putting my faith in technologies like SVM which seem to be very good at detecting neurological disorders or finding an anon's real identity based on writing style.

Should we be worried about the ones who appear in the news claiming PTSD, or the ones who join support forums? ... Never mind, don't want to go there.

 

[emmat]

It's not just all con games for the sake of money and scamming disability benefits. I mean, there are full blown mental disorders wholly based upon the desire to fake being ill/ or faking someone elses illness called Factitious Disorders & I bet quite a few people looking for this stuff are sufferers.

Factitious disorders are conditions in which a person acts as if he or she has an illness by deliberately producing, feigning, or exaggerating symptoms. Factitious disorder by proxy is a condition in which a person deliberately produces, feigns, or exaggerates symptoms in a person who is in their care. Munchausen syndrome is an older term for Factitious disorder. People with this condition may produce symptoms by contaminating urine samples, taking hallucinogens, injecting themselves with bacteria to produce infections, and other such similar behaviour. People with this condition might be motivated to perpetrate factitious disorders either as a patient or by proxy as a caregiver to gain any variety of benefits including attention, nurturance, sympathy, and leniency that are unobtainable any other way.

 

[Jimmy]

I have to laugh. I actually posted to that thread and hope it has not been taken out of context. But I said that I used to pretend I did not have PTSD to help me through my troubled periods. It did not work though. haha

Jimmy