Ask the Therapist
Compulsive Lying
My friend is a compulsive liar. I
have told her this, but she denies it and then forgets I ever said it. She lies
about everything, everyday. She has lied about her father having Prostate
Cancer, when he has never had any troubles before. Even the little things she
lies about. She has been losing all her friends and no one wants to know her.
Soon she will have no one to go to. She needs to know what she has, but no one
can get it through to her. how do we tell, and try to explain to her that she is
a compulsive liar? HELP!
Compulsive lying is driven by a few things: low self-esteem, the need for attention, and other, more serious issues. The thing about compulsive liars is that they general are best at lying to themselves. When someone is that deep into it, they are convinced that their version of the truth is really the truth. There is no way to help someone
recognize a problem, when they don't realize it's a problem.
