Are all narcissists liars

Answer 1

If you know anything about Narcissism, you will know that they all must project a morally perfect, charming, superior intellectual image to the outside world. It is behind closed doors or out of earshot of others that the truth exists. That is were the narcissist feels safe to commit his dastardly deeds. The narcissist employs multiple methods of lying to achieve his/her goal of obtaining the illusion of either perfection, authority or narcissist supply. No one must know that an insecure, angry individual, with the emotional mentality of a spoiled 6 year old, lurks beneath their thin veneer. One of the most popular methods of lying is projection. That is when they take their faults and actions and project them on another, usually unknowing, source. Either they punish the victim themselves and/or they sit back and watch, with delight, the victim be ostracized or unfairly punished by others for their own deeds. Since they have convinced others that they have no faults, but have "exposed" the victim, they will not ever be held responsible or face their own demons. The paper-thin aura of perfection is safe. Usually, once this victim has been established by the narcissist, the victim can be completely misaligned and misrepresented to the outside causing loss of self-esteem, which is the fault the narcissist wanted to project on another in the first place. Another is called "gaslighting". This is when the narcissist employs his most cunning skill. In order to weaken the victim of choice, the narcissist skillfully convinces the victim that everything that happens is really their own fault. This is used to gain complete and absolute control over the victim, again, so the truth won't come out. Hence, they won't have to accept responsibility for their actions. The victim is told that he/she is too sensitive, is incapable of understanding anything ( due to the superior intellect of the narcissist) and deny any wrong doing on the part of the narcissist by either insinuating or out and out declaring that the victim must be crazy...that there is something wrong with them. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the victim. The narcissists life is nothing but a house of cards built on lies and deception. Their worst fear, and the thing that provokes the most rage and wrath, is the truth about themselves coming out. Exposure of the narcissist, which is not for the fainthearted can be a long, constant, ongoing battle. But, if properly and carefully done, through documentation and outside collaboration ( professional and/or legal help is best), it's like putting a stake through the heart of a vampire. If you are the victim of a narcissist, the best advice is: Run!

Answer 2

Are they really liars or are they the type that dramatizes a truth? I pick the latter. It's like one person will tell you a joke and by the time it gets to the 10th person the joke isn't even the same anymore. Narcissists will dramatize events in their lives to boost their own egos and get stroked with praise by the listener. Most narcissistic people actually don't feel very bright so they drive themselves crazy trying to prove to others they are. In a narcissists mind they do feel they are of above intelligence (some are) and that they are on a totally different plain of life than the average person. Psychiatrists find narcissistic people intriquing, but there is no evidence to prove why they are like this. Marcy I've always found them to be pathological liars. My narcissist ex, would lie to the extent that he would believe his own lies. He had no concept of reality and if you tried to show him this "proof" he claimed he wanted in situations, he would make it so you could not show him he's wrong. This person would always call everyone else liars, while lying about every single thing. I have really only dealt with him and one other, the other person would lie, then always claim he was 100% honest so in my experience, they do lie. Yes. I had one that fabricated a whole story that he was going away for ten days. My gut told me he was doing this to make me miss him or something. Guess what, there was no trip. He came back and told me all these lies about this so called vacation. My ex husband also told me this too. He told me whole story how he went on vacation and what it was like....blah...blah.it was also all lies. They are compulsive liars. Why wouldn't they be? They don't even have a sense of reality. They can't even tell the difference between reality and fantasy. They think that both reality and fantasy are interchangeable and that they can just make things up (even by "lying" to themselves) to fit their needs.

Answer 3

Simple answer: yes; they lie a lot because they see nothing wrong with literally living within their own world and, if you don't indulge them by going along with their ridiculous lies, then they won't have a problem pushing you out of their lives.

Answer 4

no. while some narcissists lie directly others will frequently lie by telling the truth and a few pride themselves on honesty. What defines a narcissist is not a habit of lying it's a desire to be perfect or at least better than anyone else while many, like me, enjoy playing mind games with other people not all narcissists do.

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Striving for perfection doesn't make you a narcissist.

To portray you're perfect is a trait not a disorder.

Dishonesty an deceit is the very nature of narcissism,

they lie and deceive themselves all the time,

by extension to others

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Answer 5

Typically yes. Trust me because I'm a narcissist.

Answer 6

Yes. They lie so much that they cannot tell the difference between truth and fantasy.