I am a liar. I dont see it as a good trait but it is simply true. I could blame it on growing up with a narcissistic mother and a very explosive bipolar father and siblings with all sorts of mental health issues. I have had plenty of reasons to lie and watched many people lie their way through life.

My lying is my own choice though. It was mostly little white lies as a child but there was one time I told the Dr that the pain I was having had not gotten better when in reality it had. They took my appendix out because of that lie, they said I had early appendicitis but were they lying too? Who knows.

As an adult I have made good progress towards being a more honest person and I am proud of that however in an episode I do revert back to a lot of lying. My lies are things like, I will go to that appointment, I wont drink, I will go back on meds, I wont SH, Im not suicidal. Very small short lies to get what I want at the time.

The lies he has made up are beyond what I can see ever being attributed to bipolar. Severe bipolar 2? With memory lapses, jobs he never had and years of fake cancer and a fake dead family. That does not sound right to me and it is very upsetting that something like that would be published.

There is definitely something wrong with that man but the only part of the story that made a tiny bit of sense was faking a physical illness to avoid telling people about a mental one. Why would he choose something so attention grabbing though, if it was because he was depressed I would think he would choose something more mild and not want to draw attention to himself. Obviously all he wants is attention and now somehow he can have all the attention he got from his fake physical illness and now attention for his most likely fake mental illness.