Hello and welcome to the Psychiatry and Psychothermic Podcast.

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All right, welcome to the podcast.

I am here with a special guest today who would like to remain anonymous, and we are going

to talk about her journey through fictitious disorder imposed on self, or also previously

called Munchhausen syndrome.

She's a podcast called I Am Munchhausen, and I think you're really going to enjoy this

interview.

Before I begin, I'm going to give you a little bit of background on some of the disorders

that sort of are similar and different, and this may act as a good board review.

We'll go through CME, DSM, five criteria, and hopefully this kind of clues in your mind,

these diagnostic groups, and helps you see them.

I have a particular interest in these disorders, because I work as a medical director of a program

in California.

It's an IOP and partial program, which means we made multiple times a week with our clients,

the therapists to group therapy multiple times a week, and we treat people with medical

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