Don't Lie to Me! Liars, Cheats, and Gaslighters

 I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the liar and the cheat among us. Today at the pool one of the swimmers compounded a lie he told me last week by adding three more lies. I guess this is what liars do, they support more lies with  fresh newly- hatched lies. I can't fathom a life like that.

My mother was a pathological liar and malignant narcissist and a truly toxic person. Perhaps that is why it angers me to deal with a liar. I will never speak to this person again. In my mother's case she believed her own lies so she could sound convincing to doctors. 

Factitious disorder imposed on another (previously called Munchausen syndrome by proxy) is when someone falsely claims that another person has physical or psychological signs or symptoms of illness, or causes injury or disease in another person with the intention of deceiving others.