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Don’t forget that the liar lacks empathy: As hard as it is to believe, it is true.

In other words, they look for weaknesses. Liars, often sociopaths, are known to “study” the person they hope to take advantage of. In order to evade someone, you certainly need to study the person and examine what that person might or might not believe.

Know that a pathological liar will study you: The goal of the liar may be hidden, but you can count on the fact that they don’twant you to know the truth.

It is the experience of watching a “victim” run through the maze of confusion that gives gratification to mostliars.īased on my clinical experience and general research of the profession, I encourage you to keep 6 things in mind as you deal with the pathological liar: Such individuals enjoy and get much gratification from keeping you confused and believing their stories. In other words, they tell the truth in a misleading way to cause people to view things in an incorrect fashion. These sociopaths also tell truths in ways that give incorrect perspectives.

In fact, these liars would meet diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder (or sociopathy). These individualsare “skillful” liars who attempt to evade and harm everyone they come across in their lives. But there are also liars who are gratified bytelling lies, are good at it, and do not regret anything they have ever said. Their world is much different from our world. It is almost like an automatic impulse for the liar. It is important to keep in mind that there are pathological liars who quite frankly just cannot help telling so many lies. Socially awkward, uncomfortable, or isolated.Obsessive, controlling, and compulsive behaviors.Narcissism or self-centered behaviors and thought patterns.Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often combined with ODD or CDĬertain personality traits where pathological lying may occur include:.Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and CD (conduct disorder).Conduct disorder (often diagnosed in children and teens who have criminal-like behaviors or who demonstrate sociopathic traits such as animal cruelty, fire setting, and oppositional behaviors toward authority).

Narcissism or narcissistic personality disorder.Antisocial Personality Disorder (better known as sociopathy).We also know that pathological lying is more likely to occur in certain disorders or among individuals who have certain personality traits.Some diagnoses that might include pathological lying includes but is not limited to: We now know that pathological lying is spontaneous and unplanned. Science alone cannot answer the many questions we have about pathological liars, but experience can offer some clues. For many mental health professionals and psychiatrists, trying to understand the pathological liar (or sociopath and narcissist who engages in this behavior) will entail a combination of intuition and science. Humans are complex and trying to understand the reasons for why they do all the things they do takes more than a graduate school degree in psychology and years of work experience. It is very much an inexact science and entails years of study. Trying to understand the mind, behaviors, and intention of the pathological liar is not an exact science. Multiple research studies have attempted to find an answer to this question to no avail. So then why does the liar engage in such behaviors? Consequences also do not seem to affect the liar. Guilt, shame, or regret does not affect the liar. The very fact that the pathological liars’ work-life, home-life, or reputation could be in jeopardy as a result of the lies, does not phase them. It’s as if the pathological liar believes they are smarter than everyone and will never be found out. They have an inability to consider the consequences or even fear being found out. The very fact that a lie could be found out does not affect the pathological liar. An appropriatelevel of consciousness was missing from Couwenbergand is missing in so many other people who are compulsive liars. The sad part about this story is not so much that the former Judge lost his job in the end, but rather that he lacked insight intothe fact that his steps could be traced and that many people would ultimately find him out.