I feel I need to say something here...I kept my post off of whether or not someone is faking it and on the generic question asked .... if going to different doctors or hospitals points to someone faking. I also did not post my beliefs on whether this friend is faking it or not.....

heres why.....

when I read posts questioning friends of family members in maybe they are faking... I wonder how this person being discussed would feel if they, with out telling their friends and family come here and read, then see that they and their problems are being discussed on psych central... I think about the times that I read here before registering, how would I have liked to see my therapist or my friend that was here before me, discussing my life and my problems and that they feel I was faking it....

i wonder if maybe this is why psych central may have a rule that says members cant diagnose someone as faking it,

I mean how would I feel to go on the internet some where and discover my friend or my best friend is saying Im faking my problems when they have not gone to my doctors with me, they were not there to see every single one of my symptoms and what my doctors diagnose me with...

I dont know every single thing my friends do and what websites they visit I dont feel it right for me to be saying on the internet anywhere that i feel a friend may or may not be faking it.

bottom line only they and their doctors and hospitals knows whether they are faking it.

I also know that in the past 8 or so years that I have been on psych central members friends (including my own here) have come on psych central and read the boards and that has caused many to feel they had to delete their accounts because their friends and family found their posts here.

my point just a tip and something to think about when I consider whether to post online anywhere whether I feel someone is faking it or not, I wouldnt want them to do it to me , so I dont do it to them.

as for my post, I stand by it, whether anyone goes to one or more treatment facilities or one or more doctors, its just the world we live in now thanks to so many having health insurance now. my whole family has gone to many many doctors, treatment facilities and so on, just because we were sent there through insurances and treatment providers.