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The term culture-bound syndrome denotes recurrent, locality-specific patterns of aberrant behavior and troubling experience that may or may not be linked to a particular DSM-IV diagnostic category. Many of these patterns are indigenously considered to be illnesses, or at least afflictions, and most have local names.
Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy or fabricated or induced illness (FII) is a form of child abuse or parenting disorder. A parent or caregiver of a child, in most cases the mother, either causes or fakes signs and symptoms of illness in a child in order to gain the attention of health care professionals. person with Munchausen Syndrome fakes or induces signs and symptoms themselves-they want to be the patient themselves, while a person with Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy uses a substitute person, usually a child in their care, and less commonly a vulnerable adult in their care.