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Student fakes terminal illness to con her lecturer

Melisandre121

This is absolutely insane.

http://m.independent.ie/life/teacher-loses-marriage-home-and-job-after-student-fakes-terminal-cancer-to-get-her-to-look-after-her-34304556.html

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Teacher loses marriage, home and job after student fakes terminal cancer to get her to look after her

Opening Para:

A “heartless” student who ruined her female lecturer’s life by faking terminal cancer before conning her until she lost her marriage, home and job has been jailed for two years.

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MaryAntoinette

Terrible altogether, shocking.

Q_Ball

I bet she'll come dead last in her class

DopeTech

That is seriously f**ked up. Who the hell does things like that.

Gaygooner

If it was in a soap you wouldn't believe it

Dirty Dingus McGee

This sounds very harsh but was your one not a bit of a sap to fall for all this.

I feel sorry for her but she seems ridiculously naive.To take anyone into your home unless you know them extremely well and no their family in my opinion is just insanity.

Stheno

I was gobsmacked at the victims naivety tbh

Melisandre121

"Pretending she was in constant pain, Bianco started sleeping in Mrs Retallack’s bed so Sally could care for her 24 hours a day."

I mean, wow.

bobbysands81

Mental illness is a terrible for anyone to battle through.

Faking serious illness is something that happens to a minority of people who have mental illness as part of their make up. Unfortunately it being sensationalised by parts of the media makes it even harder for the general public to understand and for those suffering it to get help.

Melisandre121

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Mental illness is a terrible for anyone to battle through.

Faking serious illness is something that happens to a minority of people who have mental illness as part of their make up. Unfortunately it being sensationalised by parts of the media makes it even harder for the general public to understand and for those suffering it to get help.

I would view her behaviour as psychopathic, not mentally ill.

Hammer89

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Mental illness is a terrible for anyone to battle through.

Faking serious illness is something that happens to a minority of people who have mental illness as part of their make up. Unfortunately it being sensationalised by parts of the media makes it even harder for the general public to understand and for those suffering it to get help.

I like this empathetic approach. This story is so f*cked up that the student clearly isn't playing with a full deck. She can't be. It's easy to have a shoot-on-sight policy and crucify her, but as himself says, she's got mental issues.

Hammer89

Melisandre121 wrote: »

I would view her behaviour as psychopathic, not mentally ill.

Are psychopaths not mentally ill?

The Backwards Man

I think this proves how cynicism is a default trait for us here, but it also shows you how it isn't a universal attitude worldwide.

Long live cynicism.

Melisandre121

Hammer89 wrote: »

Are psychopaths not mentally ill?

No, Psycopathy isn't a mental illness. Psychopaths are well aware of everything they're doing and are extremely manipulative.

Stheno

Hammer89 wrote: »

Are psychopaths not mentally ill?

No it's estimated that something like 90% of world/work leaders are psychopaths

There's a kink that makes the truly evil ones go nuts.

The_Valeyard

Read like Steven Kings 'Misery' freaky stuff.

Melisandre121

Stheno wrote: »

No it's estimated that something like 90% of world/work leaders are psychopaths

There's a kink that makes the truly evil ones go nuts.

They become dangerous if they have the Psychopath gene and also suffer a serious trauma in early childhood. Don't ask me how I know so much about Psychopaths!

Hammer89

Stheno wrote: »

No it's estimated that something like 90% of world/work leaders are psychopaths

There's a kink that makes the truly evil ones go nuts.

Not everybody on the planet is a world leader though. So in the scheme of things, what percentage of people are psychopaths? If it's bizarrely low, it's hard to argue that they're normal and not afflicted with a mental illness.

Theboybang

I saw this earlier today. What a horrible horrible person and she didn't get nearly enough time in the slammer. Karma is a b*tch though!

Insect Overlord

Hammer89 wrote: »

Not everybody on the planet is a world leader though. So in the scheme of things, what percentage of people are psychopaths? If it's bizarrely low, it's hard to argue that they're normal and not afflicted with a mental illness.

Approximately 1% of the population, I believe.

MilesMorales1

Is this girl not absolutely off her head though? Or she's cold as ice, I couldn't do that, my conscience would wreck me it would, not her apparently.

Hammer89

An File wrote: »

Approximately 1% of the population, I believe.

If that's accurate then it's far too low to consider it normal. And if it's not normal then we're probably talking disorders.

brokensoul84

Sounds like a scene from the Widower about Malcolm Webster.
Good god, she had major issues not just psychiatric.

lazybones32

Theboybang wrote: »

I saw this earlier today. What a horrible horrible person and she didn't get nearly enough time in the slammer. Karma is a b*tch though!

And what evil did the manipulated woman do that karma decided she deserved this? What goes around comes around, right?

Theboybang

lazybones32 wrote: »

And what evil did the manipulated woman do that karma decided she deserved this? What goes around comes around, right?

I was talking about the girl not the lecturer

My name is URL

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Is this girl not absolutely off her head though? Or she's cold as ice, I couldn't do that, my conscience would wreck me it would, not her apparently.

I'd say they're both off their heads

PandaPoo

Theboybang wrote: »

I was talking about the girl not the lecturer

You missed his point entirely. He was asking if this incident was karmic retribution for something the lecturer did previously, because that's how karma works.

MilesMorales1

My name is URL wrote: »

I'd say they're both off their heads

Yeah but still.

SMJSF

It's sad, but after reading it, I actually know someone who is the exactly the same in lying and making up stories about people who are close to them dying for attention in the recent years and I've have only copped on to it in the recent months.
:-/.

Sunflower 27

I think tbe girl said she only had a few months to live and had been kicked out of home. Anyone hearing that story would believe it. I mean, how many people would make that up?

I think it unfair to call the teacher naive. She clearly felt responsible for this younger woman.

Just a really sad story.

topmanamillion

This is text book Munchausen syndrome
"Munchausen syndrome is a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves."

I have a friend who went to college with a girl who faked having cancer. She went as far as shaving her head and eating a reduced diet.