What mental illness is most possible with compulsive lying?!


Question: What mental illness is most possible with compulsive lying?
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Compulsive lying can be associated with several mental illnesses. It may also be a situational issue in people without any diagnosable mental illness (e.g. covering up an extramarital affair or avoiding responsibility).

Distinguishing the cause of the compulsive lying can be tricky. Figuring it out depends on the types of lies, the situations in which lying occurs, the age of the person, what circumstances are occurring in his or her life, his or her relationships, what has happened in the past, and what other symptoms are present.

Here are some examples of mental disorders that may include a pattern of lying, either as a major feature of the disorder, or as a secondary response:

1. Conduct disorder in youth, or in adults, antisocial personality disorder. These are patterns of behavior that involve serious violations of other people's rights, often violent or destructive tendencies, and a flaunting of laws. People with this disorder seem to lack the sense of conscience and identification with others' feelings that constrains most people's behavior.

2. Addictions (alcoholism, compulsive gambling, drug abuse, pornography, etc.). People with addictions may lie to cover up their addictive behaviors. This can be out of shame, to prevent people from intervening, to stay out of trouble, or for other reasons.

3. People with eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia nervosa may lie to cover up their behavior because they do not want it to be noticed. In this case, lying would primarily be limited to issues around food, body image, and binging/purging/starving behaviors.

4. Children tend to lie sometimes even without any diagnosable disorders, but children with behavior and impulse-control problems may do it more frequently or in response to difficulties. Children with ADHD and/or oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) may lie impulsively to cover up misdeeds or problems they are having, e.g. denying writing on the furniture, saying they've done their homework when they haven't, etc.

5. Some conditions, such as factitious disorders (e.g. what's sometimes called Munchhausen's Syndrome) involve people inventing health problems in themselves or others, even going so far as to *cause* symptoms of the illnesses by harming themselves or their children and lying about the cause. The reasons for this are unclear, but may involve a need for attention. (It's different from hypochondria; hypochondriacs tend to worry about and overinterpret symptoms that are already there, but they do not induce the symptoms on purpose.)

6. Other personality disorders may lead to compulsive lying, reflecting paranoid, narcissistic, or emotionally-reactive tendencies.

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Hard to say really, but probably either Histrionic or Anti Social Personality Disorder.

If you consider personality disorders mental illness anyway...




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