“Lies, lies, lies, yeah…there gonna get you!” sang the Thompson Twins in the 80s, a perfect theme song for Hillary Clinton’s political life.
She fits the clinical definition of a psychopathic liar, that is a goal oriented person who lies constantly in order to get their own way, without regard, care or concern for others.
Even if Hillary’s lies seem hard to believe, she is focused, focused on getting her way at any and all cost. She does not have respect for the rights and feelings of others.
One would think, an educated woman with a law degree, would realize that telling lies, with a camera rolling, will come back to bite one’s backside. Yet, Hillary has a dump truck full of lies that she has been caught in and contradicting video footage to catch her in the lie. Watch her fabrications implode on page two.
Pathological lying
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Pathological lying
Classification and external resources
Specialty Psychiatry
Pathological lying (also called pseudologia fantastica and mythomania), is a behavior of habitual or compulsive lying. It was first described in the medical literature in 1891 by Anton Delbrueck. Although it is a controversial topic, pathological lying has been defined as “falsification entirely disproportionate to any discernible end in view, may be extensive and very complicated, and may manifest over a period of years or even a lifetime”. The individual may be aware they are lying, or may believe they are telling the truth, being unaware that they are relating fantasies.
Contents
1 Characteristics
2 Diagnosis
3 Psychopathy
4 Pathological liars
5 Epidemiology
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links
Characteristics[edit]
Defining characteristics of pathological lying include:
The stories told are usually dazzling or fantastical, but never breach the limits of plausibility, which is key to the pathological liar’s tact. The tales are not a manifestation of delusion or some broader type of psychosis; upon confrontation, the teller can admit them to be untrue, even if unwillingly.
The fabricative tendency is chronic; it is not provoked by the immediate situation or social pressure so much as it is an innate trait of the personality. There is some element of dyscontrol present.
A definitely internal, not an external, motive for the behavior can be discerned clinically: e.g., long-lasting extortion or habitual spousal battery might cause a person to lie repeatedly, without the lying being a pathological symptom.
The stories told tend toward presenting the liar favorably. The liar “decorates their own person” by telling stories that present them as the hero or the victim. For example, the person might be presented as being fantastically brave, as knowing or being related to many famous people, or as having great power, position, or wealth.
Pathological lying may also present as false memory syndrome, where the sufferer genuinely believes that fictitious (imagined) events have taken place. The sufferer may believe that he or she has accomplished superhuman feats or awe-inspiring acts of altruism and love — or has committed equally grandiose acts of diabolical evil, for which the sufferer must atone, or indeed has already atoned in her/his fantasies.
Diagnosis
Diagnosing pathological lying can be very difficult because it has not been recognized as a disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Many other disorders acknowledge pathological lying as a symptom of disorders such as psychopathy, and antisocial, narcissistic, and histrionic personality disorders, but people that are pathological liars may not possess characteristics of the other disorders. Excessive lying is a common symptom of several mental illnesses.
It has been shown through a lie detector test that PF (pseudologia fantastica) patients exhibit arousal, stress, and guilt from their deception. This is not the same as psychopaths who have none of those reactions. People affected by antisocial disorder lie for external personal profit in the forms of money, sex, and power. PF is strictly internal. The difference between borderline personality disorder and PF is that BPD patients desperately try to cope with their feeling of abandonment, mistreatment, or rejection by making empty threats of suicide or false accusations of abandonment. Pathological liars don’t feel rejected, they have high levels of self-assurance that help them lie successfully. Unlike those with histrionic personality, pathological liars are more verbally dramatic than sexually flamboyant. Narcissists think they have achieved perfection and are unempathetic to others. PF patients do not show these anti-social behaviors, they often lie because they think their life is not interesting enough.[4] The only diagnosis in our current system where purposeless, internally motivated deception is listed is Axis I factitious disorder. This diagnosis deals with people who lie about having physical or psychological disorders. People with PF tend to lie about their identities and past history. Since the symptoms do not match up, the individual may go undiagnosed.[5] Though they could well be diagnosed under the catch-all rubric of Unspecified personality disorder (ICD-10 code F69) or perhaps even better under ICD-10 code F68.8 “Other specified disorder of adult personality and behaviour” as this defines itself as “This category should be used for coding any specified disorder of adult personality and behaviour that cannot be classified under any one of the preceding headings”. Here the specified disorder is the lying for psychological reasons (not material ones e.g. money etc.) and the behavior would also need to meet the necessary conditions to be viewed as a mental disorder. Now we just have to look up the def for PATHOLOGICAL LISTENERS!
Yes
oh yes
Yes
Yes, along with her husband!
Yea, Yea, Pathological liar- that’s the ticket! Yea, looks like Morgan Fairchild…
I sure wish I was as important as she THINKS she is !!!!!
No D’uh
Every timer she opens her mouth our comes another lie.
Yes was there any doubt