I'm not sure we are following each other. I've been in touch with 2 of the most well-known experts in the area of facticious disorder. Facticious disorders can vary. Facticious disorders do not stand alone. According to what you're saying.. anyone with facticious disorder is completely making any other diagnosis up. I personally have never falsified a mental disorder. I have falsified or embellished physical disorders. My question about them co-existing is based on me feeling as if I'm on autopilot and have become someone I'm typically not when I am presenting an illness. To me, that is a form of dissociation.