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What is the essential diagnostic feature of factitious disorder?

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The essential diagnostic feature of factitious disorder is that while seeking treatment for themselves or for others after the onset of injury or disease, individuals with factitious disorder often would falsify medical or psychological signs and symptoms, either in themselves or in others that are associated with the identified deception.

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