Thursday, June 19, 2008
Munchausen Syndrome
I learned about this illness while watching episode 9 of the 2nd season of House M.D..
Munchausen syndrome is a psychiatric disorder in which those affected fake disease, illness, or psychological trauma in order to draw attention or sympathy to themselves. It is in a class of disorders known as factitious disorders which involve "illnesses" whose symptoms are either self-induced or falsified by the patient. It is also sometimes known as hospital addiction syndrome.
[via Wikipedia]
Simplistically it's translated as papansin.
Recently, I got hooked up with Yahoo! Answers. At first I just posted a question because I got interested at how fast people would respond (I got a response a few minutes after I posted). Then, I decided to look at the recently posted questions of people. I got myself into the Mathematics category of the site. I found some questions fairly easy to answer (mostly trigonometric questions) so I started solving a bit and posting my answer. I got through about four math problems and one questions about making presentations. I really found the idea of answering questions fun. What was even more interesting was the chance of getting my answer to be voted as the best one. As of now, none of my answers have been voted as the best but I did receive a thank you e-mail.
It feels good to draw some virtual attention.
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