Why do they lie?

• April 27, 2024

The need to lie can easily become an addiction, such as smoking or drinking. The lie can be an escape when you face uncomfortable situations, but it could bring personality problems and distrust of the people around you.

The habit of lying it can be transformed into a personality disorder that we might call 'fantastic pseudology', which is a compulsion to imagine a story in order to cause admiration before others.

"This eagerness to impress is based on the imperative need that people have for pretending to be valuable and great by cheating means; however, the lack of adaptation of the environment in which they live and the lack of acceptance by themselves becomes evident ", says Fernando Díaz Martínez , psychologist and specialist in personality disorders.

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