In which type of disorder does the person lie about their symptoms or deliberately cause harm to themselves to adopt the patient role?

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Factitious disorder involves the intentional fabrication or exaggeration of physical or psychological symptoms or the deliberate induction of injury or illness in oneself to assume the sick role and gain attention or sympathy from others. Somatic symptom disorder involves experiencing distressing and persistent physical symptoms that have no apparent medical cause, while conversion disorder involves the conversion of psychological stressors into physical symptoms without any underlying medical explanation. Dissociative fugue involves sudden and unexpected travel away from home or work accompanied by an inability to recall some or all of one's past and confusion about personal identity or assumption of a new identity.

In Which Type of Disorder Does the Person Lie About