Ben was usually in the hospital at least 15 times a year.He was taking 19 different medications, and his mother said that she desperately wanted him to be healed.The doctors discovered that there was nothing wrong with Ben.It was determined that Ben's mother had a pathological need to seek attention and sympathy from medical professionals by "keeping her child sick." Ben's mother had which of the following disorders?

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The symptoms described are consistent with Munchausen syndrome by proxy, in which a caregiver deliberately makes someone else (often a child) ill in order to gain attention or sympathy.

Ben Was Usually in the Hospital at Least 15 Times