The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Terry Gilliam named the disorder after Baron von Monkhausen, a German military man who apparently went off to fight the Russians. The Turks and came back with all these fanciful stories that people thought were largely probably made up to get attention. People with Monkausen disorder they know they're not sick. They're trying to pretend that they're sick. There's another state of mind that someone can be in called malingering. And that's where you pretend to be sick either for financial gain or to get out of work like maybe from rest of development.