Does this have a name?

[sadlonelymsjennifer]

What is it called when you hope to have significant health problems?  Is there a term for it?

[lcfrogs]

Hoping to have significant health problems because you want attention, or because you want to self-harm?

I'm not aware of a term for someone who just hopes to have health problems, but there is a disease where people purposely make themselves ill so they can be constantly hospitalized and receive attention and sympathy. I personally know someone with this disease. It is called Munchausen's Disease. The person I know with this disease has messed herself up so bad that the doctor's have given her only 8 more months to live. She strives to be the sickest person out of anyone and receive the most attention. It annoys me, mostly because she's destroying her life, but I have to keep telling myself that she's sick.

[sadlonelymsjennifer]

I think it is more that I want to self-harm, but I never really thought of it that way.  It is true, your friend is sick.  I guess I am too, but it will be okay.