George Washington University Has No Record of Melissa Williams-Brown, claims of a degree are false Pathological liars tell compulsive lies without a clear motive. This type of lying is different than non-pathological lying, where the lie is often beneficial in some way. Lying is a common feature of social interactions among humans. This behavior even occurs in some animals, such as monkeys. Lies often lead to some benefit. For example, a person may lie to avoid social embarrassment. While some people lie more frequently than others, it is not typically a sign of a mental health condition. Pathological lying is different. It may be a sign of an underlying mental health condition, such as a personality disorder . In this article, we discuss pathological lying in more detail, including how to recognize it and how to cope with this behavior in others. Related :  Munchausen and Pathological Lying: The Strange Saga of Melissa Williams-Brown What is pathological lying? A pathological lia...

Münchausen by internet: the sick world of the internet fakers Why would someone feign a serious illness online? The  strange world of Münchausen by internet Anyone following her updates online could see that Mandy Wilson had been having a terrible few years. She was diagnosed with leukaemia at 37, shortly after her husband abandoned her, leaving her to bring up their five-year-old daughter and baby son on her own. Chemotherapy damaged her immune system, liver and heart so badly she eventually had a stroke and went into a coma. She spent weeks recovering in intensive care, where nurses treated her roughly, leaving her covered in bruises. Wilson was frightened and vulnerable, but she wasn't alone. As she suffered at home in Australia, women offered their support throughout the US, Britain, New Zealand and Canada. She'd been posting on connectedmoms.com, an online community for mothers, and its members were following every detail of her progress - through updates posted by Wilson ...

Victim playing (also known as playing the victim, victim card or self-victimization) is the fabrication of victimhood for a variety of reasons such as to justify abuse of others, to manipulate others, a coping strategy or attention seeking . For abuse Victim playing by abusers is either: Dehumanization , diverting attention away from acts of abuse by claiming that the abuse was justified based on another person's bad behavior (typically the victim) grooming for abusive power and control by soliciting sympathy (See Melissa Williams-Brown Post) from others in order to gain their assistance in supporting or enabling the abuse of a victim (known as proxy abuse ). It is common for abusers to engage in victim playing. This serves two purposes: 1. Justification , to themselves, in Transactional analysis known as existential validation, as a way of dealing with the cognitive dissonance that results from inconsistencies between the way they treat others and what they believe abo...

Often we will find that Munchausen and related medical deceptions are often accompanied by self-aggrandizing lies (pseudologia fantastica) as appears the case with a 49 year-old photographer in Adelaide, South Australia named Melissa Williams-Brown. Pseudologia Fantastica Pseudologia Fantastica is a disorder wherein the person tells lies incessantly. It is usually encountered in forensic practice in those accused of fraud, swindling, making false accusations or false claims. Introduction Lying is nearly a universal human phenomenon. It may even be part of normal development and individuation. There is no precise definition of pathological lying but we can define pathological liar as a person who tells lies incessantly. Everybody tells lies in order to avoid certain unpleasant situations, but those who tell lies consistently, whether faced with punishment or not, may be considered pathological. In Pseudologia fantastica (pathological lying), the person creates a whole new identity by c...

Emails from officials at George Washington University indicate Melissa Williams-Brown staged college degree deception since they have no record of her enrollment. Melissa Williams-Brown , a 49-year old Adelaide photographer, allegedly went to extraordinary lengths to fake a college degree she didn’t have. She made the claims in engagement announcements she placed in several newspapers - including the Los Angeles Times and  Irvine World News . George Washington University has no record of Melissa Williams-Brown Melissa Williams and Glenn J Brown published a series of "engagement announcements" where Melissa claimed to have earned a bachelor's degree at George Washington University.