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You can't possibly believe that ridiculous story? That he tried to poison someone with eye drops, and that the only evidence for this is that while nothing happened at the time, the eye in question has felt irritated ever since?! I don't even know how to respond! I'm not an expert on mental health so I don't want to go claiming this is due to one mental health issue or another, but I was brought up to believe that such stories are evidence of extreme paranoia.

EDIT:

> I was having panic attacks

This person admits to being mentally ill. I will be the very last to say that one form of mental illness (anxiety) has anything to do with another (whatever caused this paranoia) but I did want to add this to debunk the notion that there's no evidence that this person is mentally ill.

I question your impartiality in the manner considering your 3 (so far) posts on the matter dismissing it entirely.

> is so obviously mentally ill and in need of help

> I'm not an expert on mental health

> I was brought up to believe that such stories are evidence of extreme paranoia.

I too will reserve judgement until corroborating accounts are made. You may indeed be correct - but I will wait patiently. I don't think you're doing any of the accused any favors.

Everyone knows it's mathematically impossible to replace the liquid inside eye drop containers with something else.

It's hard enough getting eye drops in when both of you want them in, let alone when one side is unwilling.

Some people claim similar things about rape and try to use that as evidence showing that the accusation is false ("she could just have kept her legs together"). It's a bit disgusting.

And there are good reasons for that, it's to protect innocent people from false accusations. It looks like he'd be well within his rights to sue over this allegation.

Also bad reasons such as saving face or reducing workload for police officers.

Do you really think that's the case all but a small minority of the time?

Most officers go into the job for altruistic reasons and I bet they'd rather help convict a rapist than to write a speeding ticket.

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