i feel the need to tell you a story about a guy i know (THIS IS NOT ME!!!! IF THIS WAS ME YALL WOULD KNOW IT). for his privacy let's call him Johnny B. Good. now johnny B. good is generally an okay guy, he tries to live a decent life, but unfortunately is stricken with the disorder of being a compulsive liar. no matter how much johnny B. Good tries he just subconciousely makes up these stories. from what he's told me he's aware of the fact that he is lying as he is doing it, but doesn't stop. it's not that he can't because i'm sure with the right initiative he could get some help. because clearly this is a really big problem for Johnny. i think what is more troubling for johnny is not the fact that he is a compulsive liar but the fact that he is REALLY good at it. until recently nobody knew of his problem. not his parents, his siblings, his girlfriend. NOBODY this was very startling to johnny because to him it only helped to condemn him to these stories until he was eventually got caught, which had never happened since he can remember having this problem. after doing some research myself i found out that being a compulsive liar is a subconcious craving of attention. in other words you don't feel your interesting enough of a person for people to like you, so you make you're life more interesting with falsehoods. the thing is people with this condition never feel as if they are receiving enough attention and eventually their lies become reality to them because they've lived with them so long. long-term compulsive liars often have a near photographic or photographic memory which makes keeping track of all they're stories that much easier. the only way for a compulsive liar to change is to confront his/her own self as well as the others he has deceived and come clean. recently johnny B. good came to me and just came clean. i'll admit that the johnny b. good that i thought i knew was not the person that stood before me. i also couldn't beleive that someone could just lie like that. and then i realized how much more these lies were hurting him than they were hurting me. that was his ultimate fear that once his friends and family knew that he had lied to their faces time and again that they would want nothing to do with him. i don't think people realize compulsive liar isn't just a joke or cheap shot at someone but it really is a condition and ruins peoples lives. i think if every one of us had the guts that johnny B. Good had to put his entire life and all his friendships on the line for the truth. the world would be a beautiful place. Johnny B. Good's resolution to change and his courage has moved me to look at the flaws in my life and do everything in my power to amend them. take a moment, and think of all the things you've done before and know you'll do again, doesn't matter if it's drugs, sex whatever if it's not right and you know it's not right think of johnny B. Good he put his life on the line for moral superiority. why shouldn't you?

  posted by Unknown @ 10:49 ip.