People are often faced with such a concept as pathology. Psychiatry has a large number of deviations, one of them is Munchausen's syndrome. It is necessary to learn to recognize such people. Lies are the scourge of our time.
Baron Munchausen Syndrome: Have You Never Heard Of This? The name of a literary character evokes extremely positive emotions in most people. What about real people? Meeting a similar person is clearly not a great pleasure.
What is a pathological lie and how to distinguish it?
Liars are very fond of telling fairy tales for their own benefit. Someone prefers in this way to gain authority for themselves. Why not? After all, you can just flatter or tell an interesting story, and no one will definitely guess that it was invented by a liar on the go. Can such a person be caught in a lie? Of course, it's not difficult at all. Only here it will be very unpleasant for you, since the situation can turn against you.
An ordinary liar knows that he is not telling the truth, only he does not always remember the details of the stories that he regularly voices. A completely different matter is the pathological liars who invent their own castles in the air and, in fact, live in a fictional world. Under the guise of revelations, they always present intriguing stories that evoke a lot of emotions.
Every person has enough adventures in life, but if the facts do not agree, this detail is very alarming. You involuntarily begin to think about what is happening, and in the end you come to the conclusion: they are lying to me. A close friendship with a person suffering from Munchausen syndrome can be a real psychological trauma for a person who nevertheless decided on such a desperate act. Reality is completely out of touch with reality, and it starts to scare.
Signs of a pathological liar
Particular attention should be paid to the signs that will help you easily figure out the liar:
- the same event is covered from the other side every time, more and more new details appear. The interlocutor himself begins to get confused in names, events and details;
- a person constantly lies, but on trifles. He can, allegedly not on purpose, name different cities, confuse the chronology of events, etc.;
- if the pathological liar does not see anything terrible in his lies, he does not even strive to even recognize it;
- the liar constantly evades the answer. He will twist until the last moment and try to come up with a new lie, any other plausible excuse. Only now the interlocutor will no longer be able to believe, since the person has managed to show his true face;
- the liar does not hesitate to lie about the serious illnesses of his family and friends, he can tell nasty things about your mutual friend.
