I can accept that the disorder may exist; but whether this person with abdominal pain has it, is another question. I went in and out of hospital last year with abdominal pain and was sent away from ER since with their tests they didn't pick up anything; I was also told that the diagnostic tests were limited and that sometimes only surgery itself will identify problems. Where I am they also don't do much in the way of diagnostic testing apart from ruling out urgent conditions eg. acute appendicitis or a burst ovarian cyst - they leave tests for non-urgent conditions to other medical specialists.
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Originally Posted by stopdog
I think people blame the people they cannot help. So it becomes "they are making it up" instead of "we have limits to what we know"
Any number of things go untreated and mistreated and people stop trying to get help because they are dismissed as having nothing really wrong with them because medical science could not or did not find the problem. People with thyroid disease symptoms, Fibromyalgia, and other things have been dismissed for years.
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exactly!
as far as in therapy; I've known some people online (this was years ago and long before I was on PC) who have mentioned they did fake their condition (and mimic real conditions) in therapy because they weren't getting the attention they wanted, and also wanted to make things more interesting
- not sure that this disorder would apply in those cases though