Pathological Lying Vs Normal Lying? How To Tell the Difference

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There isn’t an established, official definition of pathological lying because it’s not considered a mental disorder. Instead it’s observed as a behavioral disturbance that is present inside other disorders like some personality disorders like antisocial personality disorder and some brain disorders like Korsakoff syndrome which is brain damage from alcohol.
Lying is defined as the deliberate attempt to get someone to believe something you know is not true. There are 3 types of lying: normal lying, prolific lying and pathological lying.
Pathological lying is still seen as a different entity that takes lying to a different level. But normal lying and prolific lying were considered behaviors that were non-pathological.
Normal lying was defined as telling less than 5 lies a day. This video discusses the differences between normal, prolific and pathological.
References
Serota KB, Levine TR, Boster FJ: The prevalence of lying in America: three studies of self-reported lies. Hum Commun Res 2010; 36:2-25
Serota KB, Levine TR: A few prolific liars: variation in the prevalence of lying. J Lang Soc Psychol 2015; 34:138-157
Drew A. Curtis and Christian L. Hart, Pathological Lying: Theoretical and Empirical Support for a Diagnostic Entity. Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice 22 June 2020
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@luhernandez626 3 года назад

this is embarrasing but yikes, this is me. like I DONT HAVE ANY REASON TO LIE but i still do it, even before realizing what i'm doing

@mkz4123 Год назад

I need to get a divorce.

@HenryGreenEngine3 3 года назад

As a recovered pathological liar I used it as a defense mechanism. I lied to everyone up to and including myself on the daily. Looking back I realize just how much it took out of me to keep everything in order and the stress of someone possibly finding out the truth was unbearable.

@rudeboymon3177 3 года назад

My sister pathologically lies all the time but shes also a very genuinely caring person at the same time. Call her out on an obvious lie and she will spin it until you give up. People are weird. Just make sure you avoid the ones that use lies to harm you for their pleasure. Ive met a few of those in my life

@patteegee9506 3 года назад

I was a "victim" of a pathological liar, and being a trusting, gullible person, it took me a very long time to put two and two together. Even when the "stories" were unbelievable, I wanted to trust this person! They lied 98% of the time and just for the sake of lying! Voluntarily lying with far-fetched stories. When questioned, this person would talk in circles so as to confuse me further. A circle talker. I was so ashamed and disappointed in myself that I "fell" for it. It also made me feel insecure about my judgment or lack thereof of people. I have thought about writing a fiction book based on the fabricated stories I was told. It would be quite entertaining!

@AngelaNakiyingi 3 года назад

Fantastic video! My ex partner is a pathological liar. He lies as he breathes. It's extremely difficult to have a relationship with such people

@aprilmay835 3 года назад

I lie almost 20 times a day. It’s gone to the point where I don’t know if anything about myself is real or not. I don’t know if anything I say is even true. I have no idea how to stop

@dimitrimoore3319

Who tf I got marry to brought me here

@shadrach6299 2 года назад

I would call my husband on lies and he would say, “What difference does it make?”. It made a lot of difference to me.

@SnazzyBoxx 3 года назад

Pseudologia fantastica. Sounds like a Harry Potter spell

@artemis2520 Год назад

People, if you have this problem... please get help for it. Pathological lying is scary. I have a sibling that is a pathological liar and they have hurt so many people by doing this... even ruined a life. It isn't right, this is a problem that needs to be addressed more often in our society.

@moarroz 3 года назад

Regular lying is when you catch them in it and they come clean to what they've done.

@qpenxa

I am just here trying to educate myself more on Pathological liars after watching the "who TF did i marry"series on Tiktok😭

@christophererle-christwist6252 Год назад

I was British for two years. I had a quite convincing accent. I said that I was from Bristol. Every day, I told people that I was from Bristol but had moved to the United States during my high school years. I felt dopamine every time someone thought I was from England. Unfortunately, dopamine isn't a lasting sensation, so I had to keep doing it in order to maintain the pleasure I was receiving from my deception.

@Maziko_Lee Год назад

Parents of lying children...

@fiberpoet6250 3 года назад

I used to be really bad about pathological lying and it was because I hated myself and hated my life and it was a form of escapism from my reality to tell all sorts of lies and many of them were wild adventures and creating an alternative reality for myself. I never meant harm in them, I just wanted to create a different reality and be someone other than myself. However time went on, I got diagnosed with Autism and found a community of people like me. And that enabled me to accept myself and love myself as I am and be with people who are like me. Before my diagnosis, I felt like I was a total freak. I knew I was very different from those around me and no matter how much I tried to fit in, I always felt like an uncover alien observing the world cuz I was so socially clueless.

@Magnetar83 3 года назад

Every time I hear "pseudologia fantastica" I think about Georgina in "Girl, Interrupted".

@Blueyzachary

As someone who used to constantly pathologically lie, I think that when I started taking adderall, stopping became significantly easier-there wasn’t really any urge at all.

@piperjaycie 3 года назад

I had a friend that I stopped being friends with because of the lies. Insane stuff like buying her house at 15, she lived in a relatives spare room. Saying she had been places she hadn’t. Making up really bad accidents that she or a member of her family had been in. That she was adopted, that her house caught fire and was being rebuilt. That she is in the “British mafia”. It was just too exhausting even to just ignore it. Latest I heard is she is telling people she is a doctor.

@meowmeow3620 Год назад

I'm involved with someone who has a history of pathological lying. He used lies to manipulate, to tell tall tales, to appear higher status, for personal gratification, to garner sympathy and so so soooo much more.