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.However, his mother was eventually diagnosed with _____ because she had a pathological need to seek attention and sympathy from medical professionals by "keeping her child sick."
A)Munchausen syndrome by proxy
B)an obsessive-compulsive disorder
C)Prader-Willis syndrome
D)a conversion disorder

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Ben's mother exhibited a pattern of behavior indicative of Munchausen syndrome by proxy, where a caretaker fabricates or induces symptoms in another person (often a child) to gain attention or sympathy from medical professionals. The fact that Ben's doctors could find no physical ailment despite his frequent hospitalizations and medication use suggests that his mother may have been causing his health issues.

Ben Was Usually in the Hospital at Least 15 Times