No it's entirely differant. BIID is more like being gay or transexual.
No it's entirely differant. BIID is more like being gay or transexual.
You could argue that someone who is feigning a mental illness has a separate mental illness apart from the one they're faking--that is, a mental illness that explains why they would be trying to fake a mental illness.
But why would anyone want to do that? You just get a lot of stigma. I wish I was just deafblind. Without the added depression.
jillio--transsexual people have GID. Transabled people have BIID.
no not stigma. They will just get lot of attention and pity.... something that they didn't have from their childhood.
That's possible since unless you are in the army (or any other situation you want to leave from) their really doesn't seem to be any benifit from faking a mental illness.
...unless you enjoy receiving attention from psychiatrists and therapists as well as being given meds and asked constantly how you are feeling. people who've never had attention given to them all their lives are drawn to this and like the fact that mental health professionals take an interest in their emotional state.
as for myself, i don't.
The idea of going to a doctor unless you have to seems really bizare to me.
jillio--transsexual people have GID. Transabled people have BIID.
BIID isn't a recognized mental illness according to the DMS-IV.
You could argue that someone who is feigning a mental illness has a separate mental illness apart from the one they're faking--that is, a mental illness that explains why they would be trying to fake a mental illness.
no you couldn't, nika. feigning a mental illness is not having a mental illness. it's malingering.
All right, whatever you say. Why someone would want to fake a mental illness I don't know.
Oh I'm sorry, I by no means think being transsexual or transabled is a mental illness.
Me neither. In fact I avoid doctors when I can. I also avoid taking medicine when I can. The idea of going to a doctor unless you have to seems really bizare to me.