Epistaxis: An Unusual Presentation of Factitious Disorder

Abstract

Introduction: About 1% of psychiatric consultations are concerned with a factitious disorder. Unlike malingering, factitious disorder is a special psychiatric disorder that should be taken into consideration by the medical staff. Case Presentation: This case reports a woman with fever and epistaxis as a primary clinical manifestation of a factitious disorder which was diagnosed and treated after further investigation and psychiatric consultation. Conclusions: Procrastination of diagnosis usually leads to an increase in the length of stay for unnecessary clinical and paraclinical investigations. The purpose of this case presentation was to raise the issue of psychiatric problems and their importance alongside physical problems.

A Look at Factitious Disorder with Respect to Lost-Object Identification in response to “Epistaxis: An Unusual Presentation of Factitious Disorder”

“…The patient additionally stated that she was closer to her mother than her father. Additionally, her mother acknowledged that she had a bad marriage in which she suffered many beatings in front of the patient since the patient was a young child (1).…”