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SYSK Selects: How Munchausen Syndrome Works

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Is There a High Risk of Suicide With Munchausen Syndrome?

There's a high risk of suicide with Munchausen. And maybe if they actually sat down and saw their medical history sheet they'd say ooh right need to take this in a different direction. I run an account of a guy who feigned bereavement. He showed up at the hospital and was committed for like four weeks because he was grieving over the car accident death of his wife seven weeks earlier. The heart attack death of his mother three weeks earlier. His 11 siblings were all doing well he didn't have 14 and three hadn't died and he was never married.

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