Barbie is suffering from factitious disorder. Factitious disorder is a mental disorder where a person acts as if they have an illness. The patients are willing to have high risk procedures, such as surgery. Factitious disorder is similar to malingering; however, the difference that is people who have factitious disorder are willing to have risky procedures done. People who suffer from malingering are pretending to be sick to get out of work, school, or military service.
