What Makes Some People Pathological Liars?

What makes some people pathological liars? join me today as I discuss the following:

What are the psychological processes behind
pseudologica fantastica – aka compulsive liars?
What are some of the most well-known cases of compulsive liars?
Why do these people lie?
do they believe their own falsehoods?

✅ Don't Forget to LIKE 👍 SUBSCRIBE 🔔️️️ SHARE ↗️

i.e. WATCH Dr Das answer more of your questions:

▶️ WATCH MORE VIDEOS:

✔️ My Playlists :

📚 My Book: IN TWO MINDS, 10 March 2022

✅ Keep in touch on social media:

✴ Look out for NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY! ✴

▸ 𝐀 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐓𝐮𝐛𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬, hosted by a professional Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist and expert witness discussing his own real life (anonymised) cases. Your host, Dr Das (MBChB, BSc, MSc, MRCPsych) has personally assessed hundreds of patients in prisons, secure locked psychiatric wards and courts across the UK.

▸ If anything from today's video resonated with you or if you're seeking urgent mental health care assistance, contact your local health care provider or if you are in the UK, go see your GP. It's okay not to be okay.

#pseudologicafantastica #pathologicalliar #liars​

[wintergarden]

My mother is my example. And she knew EXACTLY what she was doing. For her it was all about control.

[madalice]

I have several family members who are pathological liars and I get more and more angry every time one of them opens their mouths. I hope to someday get away from them completely and never have to suffer the lying, gaslighting, verbal and emotional abuse of these people again.

[debshaw]

My ex husband, the psychopath, who is a PhD psychologist specializing in drug and alcohol counseling, and family counseling, is an alcoholic drug addict with delusions of grandeur. He will stand in front of you eating a burger and tell you it’s a banana. Or that he’s not eating anything. He told my son he had stage 4 lung cancer. He didn’t have any kind of cancer. He thinks he’s a great dad. 2 of our 3 kids don’t speak to him.

He pretended to be an auxiliary cop. He walks around wearing a utility belt with radios, his volunteer rescue squad badge, and little pouches of who knows what. Always the aviators too. He IS the guy who would lie about being in Vietnam if he were a little older. Sadly for him the Middle East wars were too late for him. He’s claiming to work for the police again. At 68. Like they just hired a 68 year old alcoholic drug addict liar. Well, knowing the state of the US police force, who knows!

Claimed to be a PI for a while and actually made business cards for himself. Seriously, the lies! Final straw was finding out we were $68k in debt and I didn’t know why. My own personal low cap credit cards were maxed. He wasn’t even on them nor did he have a copy. Our joint cards were maxed. At some point he took out a second mortgage without my knowledge.

People, if your partner is telling a lot of nonsensical lies, they are the tip of the massive destructive iceberg that will pull you into the depths of icy water and drown you. They lie to you, to your marriage counselor, to doctors, family, friends, attorneys, judges, bankers, etc. Our marriage counselor pulled me aside and told me to just get the paperwork filed.

[Zara_Brown]

I NEED this. I'm literally married to one and it's a nightmare. Its one of the reasons I pre-ordered your book with a quickness. The 1 saving grace is that husband is aware of it and is getting help as well as therapy. His are more stupid little lies that have no positive or negative purpose at all. I think his is because of childhood trauma and a way to cope somehow. It's very child-like and difficult to navigate.

[unknown-rnfh]

My first wife was one. She could convince you that the sky was green and was always that way. It took me about two years to find out how bad it really was. I almost lost my mind because of the lies.

[milamou]

We have a saying in my native Lebanon - lies have little legs, they can't run very far.

[danielx]

When I was a wee lad, I worked in a little bookstore in Portland, Oregon. One day, a publicist brought Lord Jeffrey Archer to our store to sign books, and when he walked in, he was visibly disgusted by how small the store was. He insulted everybody who tried to talk to him, and he was generally just a [expletive deleted]. I was profoundly impressed.

[suzipaisley]

My dad is a pathological liar, he had a head injury in his 20’s and used to embellish and fabricate but as he has got older his lies don’t stem from anything factual at all. According to him, he’s been an architect, chef, pathologist, hotel manager… among other things!

[annabear]

There’s a lot of people in my family who are pathological liars. It’s really difficult to deal with them but I try to have empathy for them while also being nothing like them.

[kimmcdonagh]

I used to work with a pathological liar. I can't remember any lies being too terrible or harmful. But, you needed to assume anything he said was likely a lie.

You could confront him on it: "why do you do this?" And he would just calmly say, " I don't know."

I think *maybe* he did it to be more interesting.

He was otherwise a fairly good person & good worker. I remember thinking I could never withstand being his wife, though ( he was married )

[lucypreece]

I have been listening to yours videos all day, and I will never get bored! You are awesome at what you do!

[KatJst]

I lost a good friend by calling him on these almost delusional stories he's lie about his life. What he wishes it could be, not what it was.

[amyteurlife]

There's always a reward...taking a risk gives them internal excitement. If the person gets mad they can go to the next level of developing their excuse and if that doesn't work at least they upset the other person and created doubt in the other person shaking their self esteem and view of the world...if they don't get called out then they are the smartest. They always paint the picture to be the center...hero, victim, etc.

[nicolagraham]

I cared for a man diagnosed with korsakov syndrome. His wife said he drank a bottle of whiskey a day for 40yrs plus.

[fionacross]

I knew a compulsive lier. It took me about 3 years to realize. By year 4 I fully understood that if her lips were moving she was lying, so that was the end of that friendship. Sad. A few years later I bumped into her husbsnd of 14 years. They'd divorced and he explained to me that I didn't understand. She wasn't lying cos she truly believed what she was saying and never once backed down, not even when confronted with undeniable evidence. Very strange. I'll never understand why. If you encounter someone like this: Save yourself. Run, Just run.

[xo]

my sons dad is one and it blows me away. considering i’m in my 20’s and he’s in his 30’s lying like he’s a teen.

[sarahbouckhuyt]

Thanks for keeping it real and trying to be playful. With a heavy heart. I need closure from the lies ❤

[staceykenny]

Stuff you need to know 101. Why has this channel not blown up, it's amazing!

[AivisSvirskis]

As a recent graduate in law I find your channel very informative, interesting and delightful. You deserve more subscribers and more views.

[cynthiaguarino]

Yes I have had experience with a pathological liar that has a formal diagnosis of NPD and ASPD. One item that stood out when reading a part of a journal I had come across in which this person was discussing something they had done and knew it was wrong, but justified it by saying it "was a means to an end."