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Factitious disorder imposed on another FDIA, formally known as Munchausen Syndrome by proxy,

is a mental illness in which a person acts as if an individual he or she is caring for

has a physical or mental illness when the person is not really sick.

According to the Cleveland Clinic, in this mental illness, the adult perpetrator has the diagnosis

and directly produces our lies about the illness in another, under his or her care.

Usually a child under six years of age.

It is considered a form of abuse by the American professional society on the abuse of children.

People with FDIA have an inner need for the other person, often his or her child,

to be seen as ill or injured. It is not done to achieve a concrete benefit such as financial gain.

According to the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders five,

there is no evidence of external rewards and no other illness to explain the symptoms.

Fortunately, it is rare, two out of a hundred thousand children.

The Cleveland Clinic lists the symptoms of factitious disorder imposed on another as,

often apparent, usually a mother, but can be an adult child of an elderly patient, spouse,

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