Timeline for Can people fake mental illness to gain sympathy?
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| Nov 19, 2020 at 16:01 | vote | accept | Bipasha | ||
| Nov 18, 2020 at 5:30 | answer | added | Amarylis Vaselaar | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 17, 2020 at 2:25 | history | edited | Bipasha |
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| Oct 30, 2020 at 3:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPsychology/status/1322010557805985792 | ||
| Oct 16, 2020 at 13:53 | comment | added | Amarylis Vaselaar | yes ,the phenomenon is called sadfishing ,acting hurt or vulnerable to gather attention. dictionary.com/e/slang/sadfishing There are psychological assessments in order to ascertain if criminals are really mentally ill or just faking.( many try to do this to escape harsher punishments) | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 15:19 | comment | added | fffrost | I think this is a very important and interesting question to ask. I think we can be 100% sure that some people fake this, though for what motive it is hard to say. However, I don't think the mere act of posting about it on social media would be a reliable index of such behaviour. | |
| Oct 11, 2020 at 13:32 | history | asked | Bipasha | CC BY-SA 4.0 |