Diagnostic Criteria for Body Dysmorphic Disorder

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1. Preoccupation with an imagined defect in appearance. If a slight physical anomaly is present, the person's concern is markedly excessive.
   
   
2. The preoccupation causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
   
   
3. The preoccupation is not better accounted for by another mental disorder (e.g., dissatisfaction with body shape and size in Anorexia Nervosa).

Diagnostic Criteria for Factitious Disorder

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1. Intentional production or feigning of physical or psychological signs or symptoms.
   
   
2. The motivation for the behavior is to assume a sick role.
   
   
3. External incentives for the behavior (such as economic gain, avoiding legal responsibility, or improving physical well-being, as in Malingering) are absent.

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Source: APA, 1994.

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