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...

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...