Can you fake SZA?

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Could you to deliberately fake it or unconsciously fake it SZA? Like if a person has spent 2 years in hospital on 11 involuntary admissions could a person keep up the pretence for that long, even out off hospital in a 24/7 staffed group home with nobody suspecting a thing? Even when that person has openly said they faked everything but still nobody believes that person? Can you trick 5 consultant psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers?

Or do you think that person is in denial and thinking he’s faked it is a delusion?

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It is possible but the major question here is why would anyone want to do that?

None of these behaviours would be signs of a healthy, functioning brain.

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money from social well fare programs like disability income

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I often feel like I’ve faked my diagnosis

I suppose it just depends on my symptoms at the time.

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You’d still have to have some kind of psychological problem to want to fake all of that for so long just to get a small amount of money. You’d probably get more money stacking shelves in a supermarket, which any healthy and functioning person should be capable of.

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Doesn’t seem worth it IMO. I know I didn’t fake it. Who the hell wakes up one day and says “I’m gonna be schizoaffective from now on”…Nobody. Mental illness is not a choice. hypochondriasm is along these lines and that’s a mental illness in itself.

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you’re probably right… but a lot of people do ■■■■ for attention alone.

Just to have nurses checking in on them and doctors asking them if they are alright.

A lot of folks really can’t handle loneliness.

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It is possible but who would do it?

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Sometimes I worry that I’m doing all of this for attention but I hate being checked on by nurses and doctors lmao.

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having schizophrenia blows… that’s all I’d say in my personal defense.

it does get eerie when I consider it isn’t real when those weird strokes of actual clarity set in… then i wind up distrusting if people believe I have schizophrenia at all

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Do you think it’s possible to fake will all those people involved without them becoming suspicious?

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It’s really on the doctors to provide accurate evaluations and diagnoses… people already try to fraud everything and the counter measures are already in place. You don’t need to worry anything changing.

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Even an Academy Award winning actor couldn’t convincingly fake sza for such a prolonged period of time and under circumstances such as extended periods of hospitalization where there are medical staff constantly monitoring the patient.

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I know someone with epilepsy and she has admitted to faking seizures for attention. But that’s someone already diagnosed with an illness faking symptoms.

Sza and sz are hard to fake i have had problems with my in-laws suggesting that I’m faking cognitive symptoms like I’m easily confused, memory problems and lack of motivation

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That was exactly what I was going to say. If you do that you’re subject to medications with very strong side effects, and you’re subject to incarceration in a mental health facility.

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