News of Impulse-Control Disorders

I met the man of my dreams when I was 19 years old. We started dating and were married 2 years later. Now I'm 29 and still in this relationship that seems to be going nowhere. He is a compulsive liar. In the beginning he would tell me little lies about his family. I thought it was just because he was embarrased that he came from a broken home and they didn't have much money. ...

What's the difference between a compulsive liar and a pathological liar? Or is there one?

Hello :(

I'm starting this journal and hope others will share their experiences with their treatment for IED. Please???

:arrow: DIAGNOSIS
I'm 35 (female) and have had IED since adolecense. I also suffer from Anxiety and Depression.

:arrow: MEDICAL AND THERAPY
I've been seeing a psychiatrist for meds over the past ...

This entire relationship I recently ended was so strange and bizzare that it still has me confused and looking for answers. The same revolves around my 45 year old girlfriend's constant lying about what seemed to be everything.

First: About 3 and a 1/2 years ago, I met her ... a redhead with greeneyes in yahoo chat. After alittle over a year with chat, e-mails and phone calls, she came to my town on what ...

My husband and I saw our marriage therapist last night, and this guy is phenomenal really. We've seen him enough that I trust him and his judgement very much. I wondered if anyone else has had experience with this / his suggestions......First, we are both supposed to spend this week truly pondering and deciding whether we are willing to do the WORK involved in making our marriage work, which will involve fixing this problem that ...

Hello. My name is Rachel and I think that I am a compulsive liar. I have had a HUGE problem with lying since the age of 7. I am 20 now. I lie about everything. Mostly I make up long, detailed stories either to impress people or to gain some shred of false sympothy, I have lied about being raped, molested, going to college, jobs, sexual experiences, ect. After so long of telling the lie, ...

Tune in to Oprah on Tuesday September 21st

Psych Forums own Terry S, Moderator of the Kleptomania Forum and new Shoplifting Addiction Forum will be appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show to talk about his secret life as a Shoplifter.

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I dated my husband for about a year before we got married....when we decided to get married, I did so honestly thinking that he had quit lying to me. (We had a rough courtship because he was having serious problems at the time. He had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenai....although I see no signs of that now.) I understood that he had problems.....so I stuck with him through everything. Now, after just a little over ...

A recent incident at a message board I visit on the internet made me realize what a complete fraud I am.

I make up so many lies...I'm beginning to have trouble deciphering between reality and the things I've made up. There are people and things that I talk about all the time that don't even exist. It isn't that I don't realize I'm lying. I know I'm doing it, but I don't know how to ...

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