I think a few days in the hospital to receive disability is all the motivation anyone needs to malinger in a psychiatric ward. It is probably faarrr less traumatizing for them than it is you. Psychiatrists depend so much on the DSM check list that all you really need to do is repeat the list of symptoms and you are set to pay rent and buy drugs. It's a lot faster and involves far less work than getting a job.

However, you also have to understand that plenty of us are still accused of faking or wanting attention from others. So don't be toooo quick to judge.