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An article published a story on a woman in Colorado who ended up making her daughter seem sick until the point of death. Once she brought her other daughter in to the hospital for "bone pain," suspicion was raised. Ultimately the authorities discovered that this mom ended up faking her daughters illness to receive money from all different sources. This would be an example of...Group of answer choicesFactitious disorderFactitious disorder imposed on another Conversion disorder Somatic symptom disorder

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An article published a story on a woman in Colorado who ended up making her daughter seem sick until the point of death. Once she brought her other daughter in to the hospital for "bone pain," suspicion was raised. Ultimately the authorities discovered that this mom ended up faking her daughters illness to receive money from all different sources. This would be an example of...Group of answer choicesFactitious disorderFactitious disorder imposed on another Conversion disorder Somatic symptom disorder

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This would be an example of Factitious disorder imposed on another. This disorder, also known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy, is a mental illness where 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. In this case, the mother was making her daughter seem sick to receive money.

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