LIES

“The one that says a lie does not know what task he/she has assumed, because he/she will be forced to invent twenty more lies to support the certainty of the first one.”

ALEXANDER POPE

It is well known, that we have all lied at least once in our lives, and it is possible to say that it is something innocent that even children do, the problem is when the lies become the circle of the whole life, and maybe you are saying " it is not true”, well let me tell you something, it is true, and some persons do it.

But why do we lie?

Clinical and psychological studies have proposed a theory, of that it exist neurological base to lie, to deceive and for the manipulative behavior of these people. The investigators of this one study considered to evaluate if the individuals with this problem, show structural anomalies in the volume of the gray substance and the white substance of the prefrontal portion of the brain.

Clinical researches were realized in 12 lying pathological individuals, in 16 antisocial individuals and in 21 normal individuals who operated as group control.The investigators have made a nuclear magnetic resonance of the brain to all of them to evaluate the volumes of the substances or gray and white matter, and a series of psychological tests.

The results of the study showed that the lying individuals presented an increase of 22 % to 26 % of  their white prefrontal substance and a reduction of 36 % to 42 % of the relation grey /  white prefrontal substance  in comparison with the antisocial individuals and the normal individuals of control.

The investigators say that the cerebral bark prefrontal is the most important component in the circuits (neuronales) in that the lie is sheltered and provides a neurological initial relation of the lying personality.

Though the personality of the compulsive liar demonstrates when one is young or the adult age, the specialists agree in that he/she is during the childhood when he/she begins to be constructed.

But why do specialists agree in this?

They make clear, that in the childhood he/she personality is formed depending of the education and the context in which the childhood develops. And the childhood is in constant asymmetry with the adults, that is why he/she uses innocent lies to try to be equal, or to fit in.

The fact that the parents suppress the lies of  their son or daughter it prevents this one to generate a mark that characterizes it and usually to leave a trauma that will be announced in the adulthood.

There are four types of lies:

the one done in sporadic form (we have all lied at least once in our lives), the evolutionary one (of child), which is said as product of a symptomatic suffering (to obtain attention thanks to the creation of a false character) and the effected one as repetitive conduct .This last one  is the mythomania, in which it is lived for and for the lie.

Now I am going to put some examples of these behaviors:

Pathological Gambling: The person lies consciously to obtain money that after he/she will invest in the bingo, bets, etc. At the beginning is used voluntarily by believing he/she can control his habit.

The mythomania: It is the imbalance that consists of stealing objects that are not necessary not for the personal use and  not for the economic situation of the subject just because they feel the need to steal . A very common example is the case of the actress Winona Ryder.

Artificial disorders: It calls technically this way to the simulation that some persons do of diverse mental illnesses to obtain secondary benefits.

The difference between lie and bullshitting:

On his book ON BULLSHIT. The philosopher of Princeton Harry Frankfurt suggests that a liar differs of a person who tells the truth in the fact that, the liar wants to hide the truth, while the other one wants to reveal it, that is to say, a liar always must have the truth in mind in order that at least it is not going to escape from him/her, for accident. The bullshitter proves to be indifferent before the truth. He/she would not matter for it if, accidentally, his/her declarations will be true.

The thing is that the lie forms part of the human being from the childhood, the repetitive conduct of being absent to the truth since one has use of reason stops being normal and become into a pathological problem that today can be solved by the suitable therapy.