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!

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pablita2 06/24/2008

I'd like to start a discussion about why we here, who have joined this topic discussion group, started to lie. Do you remember when you first started lying? What kind's of lies did you tell? Why did you tell them? How bad has your disease of lying gotten?

deleted_user 03/31/2009

Ok - I am catching up here. I have been bouncing around and now see others speaking about the 12 steps and sponsors. i am interested in doing the same.

My story to come:
On the short though - I cannot remember not lying about something. When I was a child it was to my parent's. I did not want to disappoint then or get in trouble so I would get out of it with a lie. After that it got easy. But for me there is always that in the pit of my belly feeling of being slightly sick, tight and uneasy.

Ister 04/02/2009

As for the 12-step program, see for example
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Step
There is also a reference to the AA Big Book.

deleted_user 04/02/2009

I have been reading about the addictive mind and how we are wired. I am not competent enough to speak to this issue but I do encourage the member to go out and read up - It's another tool to use on our journey.

deleted_user 04/06/2009

I am an only child. Yeah I had some really stupid shit happen to me when I was a teenager but then again...who hasn't? I'm not even going to try to use that as an excuse.

The bottom line for me is that I have low-self esteem and feel like I have to lie to people to get them to like and accept me...even when it's obvious that people already like me for who I am anyways.

Why do I do it? I want to be the center of attention because if I'm not...I feel like people don't like me.

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