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There are a lot of bad habits to get into that can cause you to have problems in your life, but few are as devastating as compulsive lying. Those who become compulsive liars quickly find their friends and family leaving them behind and often dip into a depression due to the situation that they have stumbled into. To understand compulsive liars, you first should understand the difference between different types of liars.
o Pathological Liar – a pathological liar is a person who tends to lie constantly about things in their life, usually to get their way. They have no concern for those they lie to and often tend to begin lying in order to cope with their life as it is. They usually lie only because they want to achieve a specific goal.
o Compulsive Liar – a compulsive liar is different from a pathological liar because they do not lie to get their own way but because they get into a habit of lying. They begin their lying often due to being in a situation where lying will help them to survive or will make them more popular and continue doing it merely out of habit. They actually feel uncomfortable when they have to tell the truth and would rather make up a lie. They tend to believe their lies shortly after they say them. They are also often labeled as a chronic liar or a habitual liar.
Lying and addiction?
If you asked most smokers if they intended to be smoking ten years after they started they would likely say no. When it comes to addicting things, most people will say that they never intended to be doing the addictive thing that they are still doing but that it became a habit that they just couldn’t break. Compulsive liars are much like those who are addicted to things in that their lying develops into a habit through no fault of their own.
Stop Lying Already!
Why can’t someone who is a compulsive liar just stop lying? Why can’t they admit that they are liars? Why do they need to hit rock bottom before they realize that they are ruining their lives? You need to know that compulsive liars believe everything they say, and if they lie and say that they’re “fine”, they likely delude themselves into believing it. When a friend choose to leave them, they can believe that it is because the friend was jealous of them or because the friend had suddenly chosen to hate them for absolutely no reason. Simply put: telling a compulsive liar that they are a liar often doesn’t do much good.
How to get them to stop lying
How, then, do you get them to stop? One way is to stage an intervention. Getting friends and family who care about them to let them now that they are in need of help at the same time is often enough to snap a compulsive liar out of their delusions long enough for them to start treatment. But how do you treat a compulsive liar?
Hypnosis is actually extremely effective for a compulsive liar. Hypnosis works on the very core of the mind and helps the liar to realize exactly what they are doing to their friends and family and how they are making matters worse by continuing to lie. Hypnosis is able to calm their anxiety and can begin to work on the very reason that they started lying in the first place. By soothing the root of the problem, the liar is able to calm themselves and learn how to tell the truth on an everyday basis.
Mark Tyrrell is co-founder of the world’s largest hypnosis website, where you can stop compulsive lying.
Mark Tyrrell is Creative Director of Uncommon Knowledge, a specialist psychology training company. He regularly trains counselors, therapists, psychologists and other helping professionals in solution-focused therapy and hypnosis. In addition, as co-founder of HypnosisDownloads.com
Mark has authored over 500 hypnosis downloads. You can find out how to train online with him at http://www.unk.com
