What is it called where someone wants to get surgery done but they don't need it?

Answer 1

I've heard it called both elective and voluntary surgery. A hypochondriach thinks there are things wrong with them, it is not a surgery that you don't need.

Answer 2

I think you're talking about Munchausen's syndrome (named after Baron von Munchausen, creator of outlandish and outrageous tales of his own life). This is when someone creates or makes up symptoms of a disease when, in fact, they do not have that disease. Sometimes they will go so far as to make themselves ill. Many people feel that this is a mental disorder.
Some will even claim symptoms severe enough to undergo surgery that they really don't need.
There is also Munchausen-by-proxy, even more disturbing. This is when someone creates symptoms of a disease in someone else (usually a parent purposely making their own child ill - for whatever reason).
These people are usually well read on the subjects of their diseases and, apparently, take pleasure in stumping the doctors and health care workers that take care of them, because no matter what is done, the "patient" never gets "better".
Another possibility is a malingerer. This, in short, is someone that pretends to be ill. Not nearly as extreme as a Munchausen's.

Answer 3

Plastic/cosmetic surgery. No not reconstructive surgery

Answer 4

It sounds like you are talking about "elective surgery" as in plastic surgery usuallu is.

Answer 5

Hypochondriac.

Answer 6

elective surgery

Answer 7

a pill popper?

Answer 8

hypochondriac