factitious disorder true Fictitious epilepsy Factitious seizures ICD9CM:300.16 https://www.epilepsysociety.org.uk/non-epileptic-seizures#.XJhlBXduLIV A disease of mental health where symptoms are deliberately produced, feigned or exaggerated in order to falsely demonstrate the presence of an illness. Fabricated / factitious illness Fabricated / factitious illness may be presented as epilepsy and may be misdiagnosed as such because of the reliance on truthful accounts of witnesses to make a clinical diagnosis of epilepsy. If the witness is making up a story this may not be easily apparent to the clinician. There may be complex psychological, psychosocial and family reasons behind this illness behaviour or it may simply be because the diagnosis of epilepsy may lead to financial benefits. The illness behaviour may be on the part of an adult who presents themselves as having seizures or a carer who presents their child as affected. Factitious illness may be suspected if there are aspects of the clinical history that seem inconsistent with an epilepsy diagnosis, if the seizures have only been witnessed by one individual, if frequent seizures are accompanied by normal EEG (including prolonged studies) and if seizures remain refractory on history to medication however there is no evidence of behavioural or cognitive comorbidity in the child. disease_ontology UMLS_CUI:C0015481 ICD10CM:F68.11 DOID:1766 https://www.epilepsydiagnosis.org/epilepsy-imitators.html#fabricated Munchausen syndrome SNOMEDCT_US_2018_03_01:31122002 Behavioral Disorder