Comments on: Facebook and Factitious Disorder http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/01/07/facebook-and-factitious-disorder/ Helping you to help yourself Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:34:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Dawn Pugh http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/01/07/facebook-and-factitious-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Dawn Pugh Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:16:28 +0000 http://www.dawnpugh.com/?p=104#comment-315 Hi Michelle, Thank you for taking the time to read my post and in leaving an important comment. You offer a helpful and informative explanation, illustrating the differences that could present themselves between the factors covered in this post. Many thanks Regards Dawn Hi Michelle,
Thank you for taking the time to read my post and in leaving an important comment.
You offer a helpful and informative explanation, illustrating the differences that could present themselves between the factors covered in this post.

Many thanks
Regards
Dawn

]]> By: Michelle McKee http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/01/07/facebook-and-factitious-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-313 Michelle McKee Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:54:50 +0000 http://www.dawnpugh.com/?p=104#comment-313 Hello Dawn, Thank you for linking to my interview with Dr. Marc Feldman on Munchausen by Proxy (Mommy Makes Me Sick) . I'm not sure that Factitious Disorder is the appropriate link to playing sick on Monday while bragging about the weekend party on Facebook, though. Factitious Disorder is a real mental illness with it's own chapter in DSM-IV-TR. Taking a sick-day in order to go golfing doesn't appear to me to fit the criteria for an individual with Factitious Disorder. External incentives for assuming the sick role are absent for individuals with FD and they actually make themselves ill in order to seek out medical treatment. Whereas the person with the Monday Morning Flu is not going to do that. They are simply seeking to take a paid day from work. Perhaps Malingering is more appropriate in the case of Monday Morning Flu, as these particular individuals seek to gain a benefit from acting out the sick role. They neither believe they are ill, as with Hypochondria, nor do they intentionally make themselves ill in order to assume the sick role, as in the case of Factitious Disorder. The benefit to Monday Morning Flu is being able to not have to work, while being paid via a company issued sick day. Therefore, it would seem that Malingering is the more appropriate correlation due to the benefit obtained by "playing" sick. I would also opine that Factitious Disorder and Hypochondria are removed from each other, as those with Hypochondria are preoccupied with having a dreaded disease and actually believe that they are ill. Whereas individuals with Factitious Disorder will intentionally make themselves ill in order to be able to assume the sick role. Hypochondriacs do not intentionally make themselves ill, they believe that they already are ill. If a Hypochondriac induces illness then they do not suffer from Hypochondria, they suffer from Factitious Disorder. Regards, Michelle McKee Editor, In Cold Blog <abbr><em>Michelle McKees last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/aFdQ/~3/507119071/coffee-crime-1909.html" rel="nofollow">Coffee & Crime - 1/9/09</a></em></abbr> Hello Dawn,

Thank you for linking to my interview with Dr. Marc Feldman on Munchausen by Proxy (Mommy Makes Me Sick) .

I’m not sure that Factitious Disorder is the appropriate link to playing sick on Monday while bragging about the weekend party on Facebook, though.

Factitious Disorder is a real mental illness with it’s own chapter in DSM-IV-TR. Taking a sick-day in order to go golfing doesn’t appear to me to fit the criteria for an individual with Factitious Disorder. External incentives for assuming the sick role are absent for individuals with FD and they actually make themselves ill in order to seek out medical treatment. Whereas the person with the Monday Morning Flu is not going to do that. They are simply seeking to take a paid day from work.

Perhaps Malingering is more appropriate in the case of Monday Morning Flu, as these particular individuals seek to gain a benefit from acting out the sick role. They neither believe they are ill, as with Hypochondria, nor do they intentionally make themselves ill in order to assume the sick role, as in the case of Factitious Disorder. The benefit to Monday Morning Flu is being able to not have to work, while being paid via a company issued sick day. Therefore, it would seem that Malingering is the more appropriate correlation due to the benefit obtained by “playing” sick.

I would also opine that Factitious Disorder and Hypochondria are removed from each other, as those with Hypochondria are preoccupied with having a dreaded disease and actually believe that they are ill. Whereas individuals with Factitious Disorder will intentionally make themselves ill in order to be able to assume the sick role. Hypochondriacs do not intentionally make themselves ill, they believe that they already are ill. If a Hypochondriac induces illness then they do not suffer from Hypochondria, they suffer from Factitious Disorder.

Regards,
Michelle McKee
Editor, In Cold Blog

Michelle McKees last blog post..Coffee & Crime – 1/9/09

]]> By: Dawn Pugh http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/01/07/facebook-and-factitious-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-311 Dawn Pugh Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:16:14 +0000 http://www.dawnpugh.com/?p=104#comment-311 You too are very welcome Mr. Rothberg. And thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my post. Your comment is most appreciated and I thank you on behalf of students and employers for your guidance. Take care Regards Dawn. You too are very welcome Mr. Rothberg.
And thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my post.
Your comment is most appreciated and I thank you on behalf of students and employers for your guidance.
Take care
Regards
Dawn.

]]> By: Steven Rothberg CollegeRecruiter.com http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/01/07/facebook-and-factitious-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-310 Steven Rothberg CollegeRecruiter.com Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:41:26 +0000 http://www.dawnpugh.com/?p=104#comment-310 Thank you for linking to my blog article. Like my friend, George Lenard, I frequently write and speak to students and employers about how employers can and should use Facebook and MySpace. Most college students and recent graduates are now aware that most employers directly or indirectly search social networking sites as part of their background checks and the vast majority of those candidates have cleaned up their profiles but there is still a sizable number of candidates who post material to their pages that they shouldn't. Thank you for linking to my blog article. Like my friend, George Lenard, I frequently write and speak to students and employers about how employers can and should use Facebook and MySpace.

Most college students and recent graduates are now aware that most employers directly or indirectly search social networking sites as part of their background checks and the vast majority of those candidates have cleaned up their profiles but there is still a sizable number of candidates who post material to their pages that they shouldn’t.

]]> By: Dawn Pugh http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/01/07/facebook-and-factitious-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-309 Dawn Pugh Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:35:55 +0000 http://www.dawnpugh.com/?p=104#comment-309 You’re very welcome Mr. Lenard. And thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my post. Your valuable comment was most insightful and so is you're "blawg". Take care. Regards Dawn. You’re very welcome Mr. Lenard.
And thank you for taking the time to read and respond to my post.
Your valuable comment was most insightful and so is you’re “blawg”.
Take care.
Regards
Dawn.

]]> By: George Lenard http://www.dawnpugh.com/2009/01/07/facebook-and-factitious-disorder/comment-page-1/#comment-308 George Lenard Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:53:12 +0000 http://www.dawnpugh.com/?p=104#comment-308 Thank you for linking to my post. You present a very novel perspective: one more thing for employees to consider as they engage in social networking -- and employers to consider as they deal with problematic employees. Employers are aware of patterned absenteeism of partiers/drunks (Friday-Monday patterns); the social network activity could be valuable confirmation of the suspected illegitimacy of excuses given. And if one is frequently sick on Mondays after partying over the weekend, maybe one needs to take at good hard look at the likelihood of alcoholism, which not only destroys careers and families, but often is literally a killer. "Denial is not a river in Egypt!" George's Employment Blawg www.employmentblawg.com Thank you for linking to my post. You present a very novel perspective: one more thing for employees to consider as they engage in social networking — and employers to consider as they deal with problematic employees.

Employers are aware of patterned absenteeism of partiers/drunks (Friday-Monday patterns); the social network activity could be valuable confirmation of the suspected illegitimacy of excuses given.

And if one is frequently sick on Mondays after partying over the weekend, maybe one needs to take at good hard look at the likelihood of alcoholism, which not only destroys careers and families, but often is literally a killer. “Denial is not a river in Egypt!”

George’s Employment Blawg
http://www.employmentblawg.com

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