What was striking about the article was how strongly the person wanted to lay the reason for his extreme lying at the gate of bipolar disorder. It seems like a way of avoiding responsibility... my disease made me do it. I once dated someone who was a pathological liar who invented an entire false life story of heroic service in US special forces. He didn't have bipolar. In fact he faked having ptsd symptoms due to events he had never participated in. He would have fake flash backs.

If anything he had a personality disorder. It seems like the people who published that article were willing to take the statements of an admitted liar at face value.