News of Impulse-Control Disorders

This is a really tough thing for me to understand. I've turned incidents that have happened to me this semester with a certain classmate of mine and I finally realized that he may be a compulsive liar.

I started talking to him because I was really attracted to him and he told me that he was finishing up his graduate degree after being gone from school for many years. He also told me that he ...

I have a cousin who is at the end of her rope with our family. She lies constantly to her family and probably countless others. We are all concerned with it too but are not sure how to come about telling her so, she will just get defensive. Is there anything that we can do to make her realize, or do we just have to keep living with "the boy who cried wolf" for the ...

I've just admitted (but not completely because I'm scared of what this means) that I'm a compulsive liar. The lying has affected my marriage in the worst way to where this is my only last chance of working things out with my husband. There are so many things that I've lied about....small things....big things (i had an affair for many months which my husband has just found out). I need to find out how to ...

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help me! i have been diagnosed with many things: bpd, depersonalization disorder, dissociative identity disorder, avoidant personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, major depression, generalized identity disorder, etc. NO ONE knows what's wrong with me! help me!

i can't stop lying. it is going to destroy my marriage and my family.

my most major lie! i told my husband that my father raped me since the age of twelve. also, that he prostituted me. for six ...

I am a college student who recently came to terms with the idea of being a compulsive liar. I lie to everyone and just about anything. I can't stop and its pissing me the hell off. I am losing the respect of my peers and am now developing severe social anxiety due to my recent loss of a basic core of friends (I am an INFP so having a close-knit group of friends is essential ...

Help my 19 year old who has mental health problems just got caught stealing a watch from wal-mart that cost 10.97 we have to go to the magistraight for him to fill out papers of guilty and to get finger printed i have no idea whats next his physc dr is unwilling to help me by writing a letter to his diagnoses and meds his IQ is 84 which is on the low end of ...

Dear all,
Just about everyday I come here and read all the sad stories and pleas for help. And, just about everday I see many of them go unanswered. Sweetngentle and Ddee try their best to answer as much as they can but they are overwhelmed sometimes. This is a forum and they need help. So if you read a situation that you yourself experienced and have good advice to give then please take the ...

Hi everybody
I have been searching the web for two days hoping to find some support and i found this site i read some off the messages on this board and cant believe my luck that i have finnally found some other people who have or are experiancing the nightmare that iam experiancing with a compulsive lier , with whom i have been dateing for 5yrs. ' I know it sounds mad that i could ...

Hi All,

I have just had a huge argument with a close friend of nearly 10 years. The argument was over money...to cut a long story short I have been having a few money problems of late and as friends we have always helped eachother out with money here and there so my friend said that he wanted to help me out by paying my bills that were piling up...I didn't agree at first as ...