Malingering

Question: What is the difference between Malingering, Munchhausen and Facious Disorder? Will award best answer :]

Answer: Munchhausen and Facious Disorder are basically the same thing, the patient produces symptoms to gain attention, while one who is malingering does the same for financial or other gain, or to avoid punishment or responsibility Factitious disorder / Munchausen syndrome by proxy: This is a deliberate effort to produce physical or psychological symptoms in order to gain attention from the sick role. Malingering disorder applies to persons who deliberately pretend to have an illness or disability in order to receive financial or other gain, or to avoid punishment or responsibility.

Question: How to evaluate whether someone presenting with apparent expressive & receptive aphasia is malingering or not?

Answer: simple reaction tests can determine that for you. if someone suffers from aphasia they will not respond to reward based tests that count on selfishness whereas a malingerer will.

Question: What is malingering? and how do you know if it affects you? I took my 11 year old daughter to the eye doctor because she said she can't see the board and need glasses. The dr. said her eyes are fine and she has malingering. My daugter does not try to get out of doing her work so I do not understand why the doctor would say its malingering.

Answer: What else would complaining about imaginary troubles be called?

Question: Since Americans spend so much time at work malingering, wouldn't it make sense to cut back the work week? From 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, to 4 days a week, 6 hours a day, and present electronic obstacles to malingering such as having the work come up, and with a studied amount of time to resolve it and be paid beased on productivity, and accuracy. And as we continue our journey into a Brave New World, should not our ultimate goal be that people don't have to work, except out of there homes, and do only the work they want to do? I hope a century from now, we will be a planet of leisure, contemplation, and art. We are a highly intelligent and clever species and thus should not have to do any work we don't want to do!

Answer: We lose trillions every year due to people socializing on the job. They won't like this, but it's because work is all the life many have. That's why when they are at work, they play. And when the get off, they talk about work. And they say I'm boring.

Question: Does the MMPI control for lying and malingering?

Answer: Fake Bad" Scale In March 2008 a front page article in the Wall Street Journal exposed what it claimed to be the lack of scientific validity of the "fake bad" scale, which is used in courts as argument for malingering in injury litigation. According to the article two Florida judges barred use of the scale after special hearings on its scientific validity. The article reports that the scale was developed by psychologist Paul Lees-Haley, who works mainly for defendants (insurance companies etc.) in personal injury cases. The article reports that in 1991 Lees-Haley paid to have an article supportive of his scale published in Psychological Reports, which the Wall Street Journal described as "a small Montana-based medical journal." The scale was introduced in MMPI after a review of the literature. This review was considered flawed by its critics because at least 10 of 19 studies reviewed were done by Lees-Haley or other insurance defense psychologists, while 21 other studies critical of the test were excluded from the review. One of the critics of the "fake bad" scale is retired psychologist James Butcher, who found that more than 45 percent of psychiatric patients he studied had Fake Bad Scale scores of 20 or more, which according to the "fake bad" scale meant they were malingering. Butcher contends that it is unlikely that so many psychiatric patients misled doctors. The article quotes Butcher concluding: “ This is great for insurance companies, but not great for people. � However, Butcher's own study has been criticized on methodological and conceptual grounds, including the likelihood that his subject pool included many malingerers, that he ignored recommended gender-related cut-offs, and used a less sensitive or specific MMPI-2 scale as his 'gold-standard.' Despite the reservations of the MMPI-2 and MMPI-R authors (including James Butcher) who have a degree of proprietary control over the test, an independent professional panel recommended that the FBS be included in the standard Pearson scoring system!!~!

Question: how do you know if someone is malingering a back injury?

Answer: Put a case of beer (if they are male) or a nice necklace (if they are female) in front of them and see if they bend over to pick it up.

Question: can the army give you a atrcile 15 for a malingering and you have a profile from a army doctor? no i got the profile and my sup thanks i faked my injury and that is why he is trying to push the malingering no i have had the profile for a week and go back tuesday to see physical therapy i am not voliting my profile and i am not a turd victor your in *** no this is my first profile i was air force for six years when i came to the army they are using me being air force against me

Answer: I don't know what an article 15 is, but if the doc says there something is wrong with you there should be no consequences. I guess unless you have a history of faking illness.

Question: if your unit accuses you of malingering what do they do?

Answer: Article 155 of the UCMJ MALINGERING "Any person subject to this chapter who for the purpose of avoiding work, duty, or service-- (1) feigns illness, physical disablement, mental lapse or derangement; or (2) intentionally inflects self-injury; shall be punished as a court-martial may direct." Malingering is a fancy word for "lazy dirt bag" so they obviously don't think much of you at this point. Regardless of what you did they are trying to punish you (take away pay, rank, or Free time, etc.) or get you out of the military (chapter) Malingering is where you try to avoid work by one of the above causes. I have heard of it used for the overweight soldiers who do not loose it.

Question: I have some very serious medical issues, had many tests, docotors now refusing to continue testing? Doctors have done dozens of tests, I am still suffering from symptoms, they have not found evidence of any disease. They are now telling me they will not continue testing. I believe it is something very uncommon, possible exposure to something. I have had multiple tests done to eliminate psychological disorder and malingering. What can I do?

Answer: Hi. You should list your symptoms. Maybe somebody on here has the same problem and can offer you some advice. Good luck :-)

Question: Ye ne'er do well scurvy ridden malingering excuses for seamen. What have got to say to me tonight then? Will ye join me in a sea shanty and a dram or two?

Answer: Aye, I will that ya plank walking scurvy dog, ye. 15 men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike The bosun brained with a marlinspike And cookey's throat was marked belike It had been gripped by fingers ten; And there they lay, all good dead men Like break o'day in a boozing ken Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Now I'll have that dram for I have a fair thirst, And so has me parrot. Arghh!