# Mental illness is exaggerated

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 9, 2013, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522 "2013-06-09T03:18:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mental-illness-is-exaggerated/660522/175 "2013-06-10T21:31:58Z")

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> [@matt357](#):
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> My guess is her bf was exaggerating things.

For the record, you can’t call another poster a liar in this forum and this comes close to doing that, depending on what you think is implied by “exaggerating.” Please don’t do that. Calling another poster a hypocrite (or other names) is not a great idea either.

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