Malingering.
Malingering is purposely fabricating, faking, or exaggerating a physical symptom in order to gain something, usually money. This act involves a person lying about his/her wellbeing in order to avoid school, jail time, military service, and etc. Malingering is different from factitious and somatic symptom disorder; when people malinger, they do so for rewards, a factitious client may lie about his health, but mainly does so for the attention and sympathy from others. Therefore, malingering is for the money, while factitious is mainly for attention purposes. In addition, clients with factitious disorder may go through greater lengths in faking their illness by intentionally harming themselves with needle injections in order to appear ill. Whereas, devious individuals who malinger may simply say they are sick in order to receive compensation.
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