I met one a few years ago. I'm not talking about someone who lies once in awhile. I mean people who lie on purpose all the time and make up stuff. This guy was insane. He told me he had a Camaro, Internet, satellite dish, snowmobile, and lots of other stuff. He made up huge elaborate stories too to go along with his lies. It was sick. I mean SICK. Funny part is, he told me he had the Camaro to impress me and I hate Camaros and think they are so 80s. Have you ever met someone like this? I seriously feel ill thinking about how sick in the head he must be. He lied about EVERYTHING. Why do people do that? Is it a disease?
2006-09-23 11:47:57 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Yes, I have just realized that the man that i am seeing is a habitual liar. I think people lie for a reason..mostly to get their own way. or to make themselves look better than they are. I think it can be a sign of low self esteem or the complete opposite...a sign of manipulation.
As of tonight, as I sit here being stood up, the friend is now an ex.
I don't care what the excuse is.
2006-09-23 11:52:50 · answer #1 · answered by blue_eyed_soul_woman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I knew a person that lied virtually everytime he spoke. We could always tell when he was lying: basically, if his lips moved, then we knew he was lying. I think the reason people do that is because they are obsessed with wanting to live a more interesting, more fascinating life that what the life they live. Therefore, they fabricate a make believe world of their own (the lies) to satisfy the void they are feeling. They lie so much that even they often believe the lies. It fills the void and as a result it feeds their ego. It truly is an abnormal pyschiatric condition, and I believe it is often directly related to how in
(or out) of touch a person is with reality.
This is my 2 cents.
2006-09-23 12:12:55 · answer #2 · answered by Terry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think some guys do it to make themselves look better in their own eyes. They are brilliant enough to think that you will think the same thing.
I once had a b/f. (long time ago, in HS) but I remember him telling me all kinds of stories about how (after I broke up with him) he had all these people who would come over and beat me up. I figured he was just a kid who hadn't grown up yet, but I saw him a while ago and sitll he was saying how we had always been wonderful friends (and I thought "I don't remember that) and how we would go dancing all the time (I didn't know I could dance). Then I mentioned how I happend to cut my hand on a chainsaw(true) just a few months prior and he said how I always handled the chainsaw well when he and I were together (funny how I don't even remember going near a chainsaw until the year I cut my hand)
The really amazing part is that he is married now. Glad it's her and not me!
2006-09-23 11:55:42 · answer #3 · answered by helpme1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scott Peterson? Yes! They can't stop themselves. It's called pathological lying and it is a psychological disease. The guy needs serious help and you and anyone you know should run for the hills. My sister married a guy like that and had 2 kids with him. She's still trying to get child support from him because he can't hold a job for more than a couple of months, after everyone figures him out. It's weird, but it seems to affect guys more than girls, for some reason. I'd be interested in hearing from someone who has known a woman who has had this syndrome.
2006-09-23 12:00:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES!!! We Had One at Work that would Rather Climb aTree to tell you a lie than Stand on the Ground. No matter what You did he would have done one better.
I set up a Question with a friend one day JUST to see what "STRETCH" (our nicname for him because of his lies). I said To My Friend, Hey Bret ..Whats the Fastest you ever went in a car?
Bret said .... Oh Probably about 110 in a Mustang. I say to Bret ... Yeah I went 120 in my uncles Road Runner once.
I look at Stretch and ask him ...... and Without batting an Eye he says
" I did 198 in a Rocket Car in the Quarter Mile" ROFLMAO!!!
ANd Beleive me .... He had Many Others That were JUST as Bad..... Such as he would have won the NY Lottery but he forgot to play his numbers that day. How he owned an ittalian restaurant ..... had a camaro in his garage that he had $150 thousands dollars in it .... even though it wasnt even half finished lmao .....
Kind to think of it ...We sort of Miss him lmao
2006-09-23 11:55:37 · answer #5 · answered by D B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My boyfriend is a habitual liar. I have to stop him from lying 95% of the time just because ive learned to spot his lies out now. He will lie to ANYBODY, even his mom. And now, he's been telling so many lies, for so long, that he's even convinced his own self that its the truth....its so sad. It MUST be a disease and I hope i dont catch it from him.
2006-09-23 11:51:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not a disease, it is a psychological disorder.
Probably he has a narcissistic personality disorder which is indicative of people who have a low self esteem.
If he lies even when the truth would serve him better, I would place that in the field of a Munch(h)ausen Complex. There should be two "h" in the word, the psychologist, prone to misspell things, only use one.
2006-09-24 03:48:03 · answer #7 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A pathological liar could be said to be suffering from a disease, but what does it matter? The important thing is to realize that people do lie and that one must be skeptical. Once it becomes clear that someone is a liar, you just assume that most of what he or she says is fiction and appreciate it for its entertainment value.
2006-09-23 12:05:07 · answer #8 · answered by lidlolady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I was married to a habitual liar. Eventually, I realized it was due to his lack of self esteem. The interesting thing was, his mother was exactly the same way. Neither one could tell the truth if their lives depended on it. It got to the point that they truly began to believe their own lies, and that's when I had to leave. It's a sad form of mental illness.
2006-09-23 11:59:41 · answer #9 · answered by koffee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
George W. Bush is the Champion Habitual Liar.
2006-09-23 11:52:06 · answer #10 · answered by EMAILSKIP 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋