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  2. Malingering - Wikipedia

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    Malingering is the fabrication, feigning, or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms designed to achieve a desired outcome, such as personal gain, relief ...

  3. Structured Inventory of Malingered Symptomatology - Wikipedia

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    Stating that an individual is malingering can cause iatrogenic harm to patients if they are actually not exaggerating or feigning. Such iatrogenic harm may consist in delaying or denying medical attention, therapies, or insurance benefits. In the U.S. military, malingering is a court-martial offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

  4. Malingering of post-traumatic stress disorder - Wikipedia

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    As a result, this can lead to inefficiencies and increased costs within healthcare and mental health systems. [18] This can increase expenses and impact the availability and quality of mental health services. Malingering can complicate legal cases and insurance claims, which leads to higher litigation costs and delays in settlements. [19]

  5. Hoover's sign (leg paresis) - Wikipedia

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    In the context of a positive Hoover's sign, functional weakness (or "conversion disorder") is much more likely than malingering or factitious disorder. [3] Strong hip muscles can make the test difficult to interpret. [4] Efforts have been made to use the theory behind the sign to report a quantitative result. [5]

  6. Psychological injury - Wikipedia

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    Psychological injury is considered a mental harm, suffering, damage, impairment, or dysfunction caused to a person as a direct result of some action or failure to act by some individual. The psychological injury must reach a degree of disturbance of the pre-existing psychological/ psychiatric state such that it interferes in some significant ...

  7. Hypergraphia - Wikipedia

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    A letter written by artist Emma Hauck while institutionalized in a mental hospital; many of her letters consist of only the written words "come sweetheart" or "come" repeated over and over in flowing script. Hypergraphia is a behavioral condition characterized by the intense desire to write or draw. Forms of hypergraphia can vary in writing ...

  8. Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons

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    Bureaucratic and legal impediments to initiating mental health referrals mean arrest can be easier, and in Taplin's words, "Due to the lack of exclusionary criteria, the criminal justice system may have become the institution that cannot say no." [23] Mentally ill people do indeed experience higher arrest rates than those without mental illness ...

  9. Category:Malingering - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Malingering" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...