The Liar’s Dilemma
I pathologically lie, and I can’t stop. As a kid, I learned this bad habit from my mother, and I now have to learn how to break it. I want help for it because I hate that I do this, but I’m terrified to tell anyone because then they are less likely to believe anything I say after that. (Understandably so.)
The majority of the time, the lie comes out of my mouth for no reason, it wasn’t even planned, I didn’t sit there meditating on the lie, my mouth just blurts it out. Internally I’m cringing and keep repeating to myself, “stop, why did you say that? No! That was pointless! No, stop, don’t do that.”
sidenote although this is a learned behavior as a result of a disorder that I have, it was also reinforced by my mother teaching me to always lie to my father and always go along with any lie that she tells.