Factitious Disorder Self Test

The Factitious Disorder Self Test is a quick and easy way to test yourself for Factitious Disorder. Once you know your Factitious Disorder Self Test results, we'll help you take appropriate steps.

Are you under a great deal of stress lately? (1)
Do you often crave for attention? (1)
Do you like feeling ill in order to draw attention to yourself? (1)
Do you enjoy when everyone treat you special? (1)
Are you afraid to be alone? (1)
Do you feign your symptoms in order to get sympathy from others? (1)
Do you take the initiative to inflict harm on yourself to become ill? (1)
Have you tried contaminating your urine samples in order to deliberately influence the result of your laboratory tests? (1)
Have you attempted taking hallucinogens? (1)
Do you abuse the use of drugs? (1)
Do you abuse the use of alcohol? (1)
Do you sometimes feel strange about your body? (1)
Do you entertain thoughts of deliberately hurting yourself? (1)
Do you have skills of using injections? (1)
Are you willing to inject yourself with drugs to produce your desired symptoms? (1)
Are you willing to do anything just to obtain sympathy from others? (1)
Do you like taking the role of being sick in order to gain nurturance from the ones you love? (1)
Do you sometimes feel insecure about yourself? (1)
Are you troubled with the thoughts of your loved ones leaving you? (1)
Are you not open to the thoughts of being alone? (1)
Have you tried faking your symptoms to mislead the doctor from making a correct diagnosis of your condition? (1)
Do you have a history of multiple admissions to the hospital? (1)
Do you admit that you are often sent to the hospital with no justifiable cause? (1)
Do you have any history of mental illness? (1)
Does any member of your family been diagnosed with mental or personality disorder? (1)
Are you aware that you are not feeling ill but there is a deliberate intention for you to fake your symptoms to appear ill? (1)
Do you feel more secure when you are provided with the extra attention by your loved ones? (1)
Do you have coping difficulties with life’s common stressors and challenges? (1)
Do you entertain disturbing thoughts that you are likely to be abandoned by your loved ones upon seeing that you are feeling well and in good shape? (1)
Do you have any suicidal tendencies? (1)
Are you comfortable lying just to obtain the sympathy and attention of others? (1)
Do you find better comfort and assurance when you are ill than feeling better because of the extra care and attention you get from your loved ones? (1)
Are you willing to go as far as causing harm to yourself just to get attention to yourself? (1)
Are you determined to take the risk of undergoing an operation despite knowing that you are not feeling ill at all? (1)
Do you have any emotional difficulties? (1)
Are you happy when you draw more attention to yourself even to the extent of hurting yourself with deliberate intention? (1)
Do you often experience hearing voices that other people will not normally hear? (1)
Have you experienced hallucinating lately? (1)
Do you go to the extent of doing research about a particular illness and mastering how to self inflict its symptoms? (1)
Do you often resort to obtaining medical treatment from hospitals and clinics from different places? (1)

Enter the sum of the numbers in parentheses next to each question you answered "Yes" to:

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Factitious Disorder Topics

Related Conditions

	Adjustment Disorder – psychological response to identified stressors, anxiousness, depression, stress disorder
	Borderline Personality Disorder – distorted behavior, self image and personality, mood disorder, dissociation
	Dissociative Identity Disorder – multiple distinct personalities/identities, alter egos, memory loss, depression, de-realization, amnesia, phobias, anxiety
	Dysthymic Disorder – chronic mood disorder, anxiety, depression, drug addiction, alcoholism
	Malingering – fabricated symptoms for possible external gains, exaggerated symptoms, feigning symptoms of an illness
	Munchausen Syndrome – feigning of symptoms and illnesses, malingering to draw sympathy from others
	Narcissistic Personality Disorder – self centered, attention seeking, ego, self loved, conceit

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