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I need help.

I am a compulsive liar.

I've never really thought much about it, and I don't know why I do it.

I've been married for 2 1/2 years, and with my husband since 1997. It's funny, over the 9 years we've been together he's known of all the times I've lied to him (well, many of them. I don't think I even know of them all.)

Last night was the final straw. I ...

I really appreciate the replies on my last post! It comforts me to know I'm not the only one going through this. Well, I've been beating myself up over this so much that I finally broke down and decided to DO something about it rather than just talk about my problem on this forum.

1 I'm getting professional help :D I realized that it was the ...

Compulsive lying is typically caused by the need for attention or low self- esteem. Typically these go hand in hand as the need for attention generally lowers the self-esteem. It gets to the point where lying becomes second nature.

The main problem with sort of behavior is that it alienates friends and loved ones often to the point where it scares them. A second problem is the fact that most people do not realize they ...

I am 16 and going to college, and I have realized I need help but don't know how to go about receiving it.

I am a pathalogical liar. I don't tell extreme lies, but I have slowly and painfully realized over this past year that half of the unharmful stories I tell are not true. My intelligence hurts me in this area because I am so good at lying noone has ever caught me. I've ...

I am actually fairly new to this site. I found it one day as I was desperately searching for some information/answers/solutions on the web one day.

I am the wife of a CL. When I met him, he swept me off my feet. He was the man of my dreams. I never thought someone could treat me as good as he did. After a short 6 months we got married.

It wasn't but a month ...

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Well, the first time I lied, as in reallylied,was when I was 13. It was around Valentine's Day and I had stolen $14 from my sister after an argument. I then asked the person who I though was my best friend at the time to hold it for me, which she didn't. For about a week or so that winter/spring I would argue with my parents about it and tell them I didn't take ...

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I am not sure if I have trichotillomaniam, but I think I do. I have OCD (I have been formally diagnosed), and I am obsessed with pulling my own hair. Not the hair on my head, but the hair on myu body. I will sit for hours with the tweezers and pull the hair on my stomach and chest. (I'm sorry if this is gross, ...

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well i had been shoplifting since February but they had to go and get me caught july 19 2006. lovely. so now i have to meet with a lawyer and go to court. damnit.

lily

I've just realised I'm a compulsive liar and I've told some awful lies, to the extent that I have lost a lot of friends, i don't know who I am anymore, and the only way out seems to be to kill myself. I need to explain the extent of the lies in order to explain why they are so bad........

Thinking back now, I guess I can see that I used to tell a lot ...

I have a huge problem with lying, been lying about most everything since I was little. Mostly little embelishments here and there to make me look like a nicer person. But my lies are getting bigger and sometimes I even think that maybe they are true...like I blocked memories or something. I am talking with a counsellor, and I try to tell him I am lying but I want him to like me and keep ...