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What could the mitigating mental issue be? She’s clearly not incompetent. She’s crazy like a fox!

• SV_BubbleTime 6y ago
  The only crazy is how she’ll probably get away with it.
• srtjstjsj 6y ago
  It would be that she was a young girl terrorized by her partner into doing terrible things. Its a defense that works better for pretty little blonde ladies than large, dark, homely men.
• haram_masala 6y ago
  I read John Carreyrou's book on the Theranos debacle, and I know someone who worked there. At risk of violating the Goldwater Rule, I'd say Ms. Holmes has some serious psychological issues that make her incompetent, primarily her capacity for self-delusion. And not just the "I'll skip my workout today and run extra tomorrow" type of self-delusion that so many of us are capable of, I mean a truly bizarre distortion of reality as she sees it. I also read an article about her childhood and family life. It was sad, overwrought with anxiety, and a formula for the exact kind of pathology she appears to have had at Theranos. Even if she had lost my investment capital instead of other people's, I'd still feel sorry for her rather than angry.
  • lostmsu 6y ago
    So what are the examples of delusions?