News of Impulse-Control Disorders

Have started lying since i turned 16 when certain events happened in my family, i kept to myself and not speak to anyone cos though my family is close we just dont talk abt such topics..... not that i'm using that as an excuse for who i've become but everything started since then... i began lying abt anything in regards to status and wealth/money.... New ppl whom i met i would lie to them and ...

I am a counselor in a college counseling service. I've started seeing a young woman who has a problem with lying. She also has a bunch of OCD symptoms. The young woman had first talked of lying in order to mildly impress people - she does often feel poorly about herself. At first, I thought of the lying in those terms. BUT then she reported most often lying to people whose opinions of her do ...

im 14, female and am new 2 this site. i have recently realised that i lie about almost everthing.
i make up false experiences and then pretend that they have actually happend 2 me. when i lie it feels like the things i am saying are really true, i really love the attention that i am given when i am telling lies however i feel so guilty afterwards and know that what i am doing ...

I have recently lied to my counselor about a couple of things over a period of a few months and have been asked for documentation that will show what I said to be true. I have been caught and have let the counselor know that some things were true and others were either partially true or altogether true. I have not faxed the requested items. I have a bit of trouble with faxing anything to ...

I know that he has IED. I have been trying to convince doctors of this for years and no one will listen to me. He has totally unprovoked violence toward his family or anyone else who is near him during an "episode". The smallest thing can happen and the next thing you know he will be chasing one of us through the house with a knife. He has destroyed my home so many times. Punces ...

I have it all. A husband who loves me and takes care of me and supports me financially. We have been married for 9 years. But I feel like I have nothing. For the last 2 months I have been chatting on the net talking to a lot of men. I hate myself so much that i pretend to be someone that i am not. See i am a 350 lb woman and I tell ...

I have been with my girlfriend for almost 6 yrs now. I love her, honestly, with all of my heart. I have since the day we got together. Recently, I tried to pick someone else up and didn't tell her about it on a technicality that "nothing happened". She found out that "something" happened, although it wasn't physical, I still lied to her with variations of the truth and blaming the incident on the other ...

Can anybody give me some advice??
My best friend has always told a few lies- I always thought they were an attempt at gaining attention but now I'm starting to get totally wound up about the whole thing. She has only just finished a 5 year stint at university and she's had a whole different life so it has always been difficult to disprove her but now that she is here permanently, the cracks are ...

I have been with my bf for 3 years. We were co-workers, he started lying to me from day one. He told me he had one child,after being with him for 1 month. Then he tells me he adopted his sister's daughter and he named her after himself. It turned out his "adopted" daughter was actually his biological daughter and he didn't want for me to tell our co-workers this is why he says he ...