Liars Anonymous Community Group
A support group to provide those with a compulsive addiction to lie a place to share hope, strength and courage with others like them; solve our common problem and help others with a compulsion to lie. We aren't alone!
Hello, I am young man from Northern California, who has a learning disability and a has extreme low self-esteem. I cope with this by lying, while sometimes I appear somber from the mistakes even crying, I keep doing it, this is why I am no longer blaming medication, or my struggles on lying. I finally got caught on a miniscule homework assignment and spilled everything to my parents. I lie to my dad, mom, step-mom, therapist, sister, friends, disrupting relationships, as I go. I am seeking help because just like with alcohol, I am an addictive liar, and I do not see an end in sight.
I know that it seems hopeless - but from one who has been/is on the same road - I have lied to my parents, my friends, my spouse and it seems so difficult as if it's just an auto-response. The best advice I can offer at this point is to sit down every night, look at yourself in the mirror and think about each thing that you did and said that day - recognize which were true which were not - ask yourself why? And then if you can - go to the person that you said the lie to (if you did) and apologize. But you have made the first step already-you admitted to yourself that you are a liar.