Lying can be a symptom of some mental health conditions according to a 2021 review, including borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder. Mental health conditions that can involve compulsive or pathological lying People with certain conditions - including narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder - tend to act in manipulative or deceitful ways regardless of the consequences and upset it might cause. Pathological lying is a sign of some mental health conditions, especially personality disorders. This lying often occurs long-term and can pose a risk to the person and those around them. The person may believe that they can’t control their lying behavior. Pathological lies represent a trait rather than an impulse. Those who lie pathologically may experience distress because of their lies, and they might have a fear of someone discovering their lies. Pathological lying is when someone lies frequently such that it impairs their social, work, financial, or legal functioning. Pathological lying was originally called “pseudologia phantastica,” a term coined by psychiatrist Anton Delbrück in 1891 to describe people who told so many outrageous lies that the behavior was considered to be caused by a mental health condition. The research suggests that compulsive lying falls under the broader definition of pathological lying, rather than being its own separate phenomenon.
The term “pathological lying” is often used interchangeably with “compulsive lying,” and there’s no clear clinical difference between the terms. These levels of dishonesty can lead to dangerous situations and interfere with the well-being of friends and family. It may bring them comfort and security to make things up. They may be dishonest about many things, including seemingly unimportant things. Someone who lies compulsively or pathologically will lie very often and out of habit, despite not having a good reason for being dishonest. protecting themselves from a perceived threat.
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