1.   Prosecutors have suggested that he is faking his illness, but a series of psychiatrists over the years have disagreed, and Williams has been forcibly medicated in prison.

2.   The disorder is a variant of an adult disorder, Munchausen syndrome, a disorder in which victims fake illness or inflict harm on themselves to produce symptoms.

3.   The same document said he was sometimes laughed at while vomiting, as staff accused him of faking an illness to avoid tough physical exercise.

4.   There have always been people who faked illness for one reason or another, and for centuries doctors have known about such phony ailments, called factitious disorders.

5.   They said the boy was returned to the camp on orders from the owner, Charles Long, who believed he was faking an illness.

6.   At the hospital, they said she was faking her illness.

7.   But the government says many people are faking illness.

8.   German workers take up to six weeks of sick leave a year while collecting normal wages and sometimes more, but the government says many people are faking illness.