Mar
We’re in high school Year 11 (UK) and she told everyone that she had cancer. Not only that she also said that she has been it by a automobile, been raped by her father and her ex-boyfriend. She has fake fits, the school nurse and paramedics state they’re fake, plus she can control them. Seriously who would have all that happen would probably commit suicide, that’s what everyone else has said, not me. Her family have no idea about all of this, her mum, dad (about the cancer), her brother and two sisters all but one older than her.
The thing is we want to know why she has lied about all of this. I seriously don’t think it is about attention or sympathy as she’s a girl who likes to stay in the shadows.
What makes the whole situation worse is that someone in our year has got cancer and we know as she is being treated for it, it’s far too obvious.
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this poor girl has some other issues going on and needs to get some psychological help. the best thing you could do is call her on this, ask her why she is saying these things, let her know that you aer there for her and would like to help her by supporting her as she gets the help she needs for her mental issues…perhaps you could talk to her family about his too so that they are on board with helping her…she needs the support of family and friends to face her issues and get her mental state superior….tell her how this is effecting you as her friend. all the ideal.
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She has serious psychological problems and far from trying to help or comprehend her, my advice would be to keep a safe distance from her. If she can lie about herself she can lie about others and people like her can destroy lives ( she has already falsely accused two men of rape, one her own dad )
You are not her psychiatrist or her social worker, please don't get involved, she might well end up telling lies about you and some people will believe her.
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Maybe she is staying in the shadows because you and your friends aren't interested in her.
Since you aren't interested in her or her welfare, minding your own business might be in order.
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I think maybe your friend has got a few tiles missing upstairs.
Sounds like she needs professional counselling, these are not things to be going around lying about really.
Maybe she’s depressed, or had a terrible child hood and is just seeking some attention??
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look up Munchausen syndrome, it's like hypochonrida but it's when they know nothing is wrong with them, there are treatments for it.
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He obviously wants more attention.
http://treat-cancer.nl/tc01
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She has problems.
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i think she wants attention
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maybe all she needs is friends
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I have great news for your drama queen hypochondriac friend. She's finally sick with a real condition.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/munchau…
Munchausen syndrome. Serious sounding name, fairly serious disease because of the potential for self-harm.
It's a term for people who pretend to be sick in order to gather attention and sympathy.
There's no known physical cause. The only clear border between being mentally ill and just being a ***** is that being a ***** is voluntary. If it's wrecking her life and she can't stop it then insulting her is futile and she just needs counseling.
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It is exactly to get attention and sympathy. This girl probably is too shy to socialize normally, thus your statement that she likes to stay in the shadows BUT maybe this is her desperate plea for attention. She thinks she's not interesting by being herself, so she makes up stories so people will start noticing her. I think her family should be notified by the school nurse and the poor girl should go see a therapist. Although.. it could just be that she's a pathological liar. Some people can't help themselves, they just have to lie about everything all the time with no apparent gain or reason. My ex boyfriend was like that. He'd lie about everything, for completely no reason, even when the truth would have been a superior version. (e.g. when he was feeling sick once he didn't call in sick at work, he called in saying his father was just rushed in the hospital in a different city and had to go see him. wtf. ) and that’s a very profound psychological problem. Basically, either way, she needs to see a psychiatrist.