Geographical separation of the partners.
A factitious disorder where a person intentionally fakes, simulates, worsens, or self-induces an injury or illness to be treated like a medical patient.
A man believes that he has been transformed into a wolf.
Poor prognosis.
Approximate answers, clouding of consciousness, and true or pseudohallucinations.
Limit behavior and maintain a hospital registry of such patients.
A condition characterized by vivid visual hallucinations in a partially sighted person who has insight into their unreality.
The mother's denial is often strong, and it is hard to access the emotional life of patients who enact rather than verbalize their feelings.
The case should be reported to a child protection social worker, such as Tusla Child and Family Agency.
In prisoners, hence sometimes called 'prison psychosis'.
Extreme self-neglect and domestic squalor.
A delusional belief is transmitted from one individual to another.
To improve wellbeing and outcomes for children and to assess reported concerns.
It differs in intensity and rationality.
Individuals with Charles Bonnet syndrome have insight into the unreality of their hallucinations.
Other mental disorders such as anxiety or depression.
Medications for other mental disorders like anxiety or depression.
In person, by telephone, or in writing to the local social work duty service.
Gastrointestinal symptoms or haemoptysis.
Assume that infidelity has taken place.
Feigning or inducing medical symptoms in another person, associated with identified deception.
The delusional belief that familiar persons change their appearance and are actually a single person in disguise.
Homicide, domestic violence, and suicide.
Nausea, abdominal swelling, food cravings, and hormonal changes.
Wolf, dog, cat, horse, hyena, tiger, bird, frog, or bee.
Females and middle-aged or older individuals.
30 to 40 years old.
Day care, community care, and establishing a cleaning plan.
They may be considered a victim of physical or psychological maltreatment.
The belief that people in the environment swap identities with each other while maintaining the same appearance.
Othello syndrome.
Most patients deny having the problem and are often uncooperative.
Persecutory delusions.
That their skin and/or eyes are infested with parasites.
The reluctance of affected individuals to seek help and their resistance to medical intervention.
The most common perpetrator is a mother fabricating symptoms in her children.
A shared psychosis where two individuals share the same delusional beliefs.
Accusing their partner of infidelity, scrutinizing communications, and interpreting innocent events as evidence of cheating.
Cognitive behavioral therapy.
Feigning, falsifying, or intentionally inducing medical signs and symptoms associated with identified deception.
Delusional parasitosis or delusion of infestation.
Treating the underlying disorder, often with antipsychotics or antidepressants.
They frequently move from doctor to doctor or hospital to hospital to find new audiences for their claims.
The search may violate patient privacy and trust.
A factitious disorder, not a fictitious disorder.
Seeking attention, especially from healthcare providers.
A substantial majority of individuals identified are female.
Manipulating laboratory tests to falsely indicate an abnormality.
Chronic alcohol dependence, substance addiction, organic brain disorders, schizophrenia, and mood disorders.
Age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and cataract.
Feelings of helplessness, isolation, anxiety, and depression.
Less than 1%.
A factitious disorder where a caregiver induces illness in another person, usually a child, to gain attention.
A condition where a man experiences symptoms resembling pregnancy when his partner is pregnant.
The person believes that they are dead or do not exist.
Reassurance that the visions are benign and do not signify mental illness.
Individuals aged 60-90 years.
No, you only need reasonable grounds for concern.
A psychiatric syndrome where a person believes they can transform into a wolf or have wolf-like characteristics.
Males are more affected than females.
She may have a medical background, deny deception, and lack usual parental concern.
SSRIs (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors).
A condition where individuals believe they are dead or do not exist.
Review the patient's medical records for inconsistencies and contact family or friends to verify the patient's claims.
Contact the Gardaí on 112.
Also known as delusional parasitosis, it is the belief that one is infested with parasites.
Stressful situations that provide an opportunity for personal gain or avoidance of responsibility.
Cognitive behavioral therapy.
Dementia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and depression.
There is a risk of violence towards the love object or perceived rivals.
An umbrella term for a group of delusional disorders involving the belief that the identity of a person, object, or place has been altered.
A delusional disorder where a person believes that a close relative or spouse has been replaced by an exact double.
A delusional belief that another person is in love with the individual.
The person believes that someone of higher social status is in love with them.
Reporters are protected as long as they report what they believe to be true and do so in good faith.
A belief that there is a doppelganger or double of oneself carrying out independent actions.
Also known as Othello syndrome, it involves an irrational belief that one's partner is unfaithful.
