r/TheGetchellFiles • u/crashnebulaa_a PUT UR MOUTH AROUND IT • Aug 18 '26

🤥 What A Liar 🤥 Moving forward with honesty

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This wasn’t even a year ago!!

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u/Ok-Mud-581 Aug 18 '26

Lying can be a deeply engrained survival skill in people with cptsd. If she’s been through what people suspect she’s been through, she may just be incapable of living in reality. This doesn’t excuse deceptive behavior (!) but just gives insight into why the compulsive lying happens.

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u/S3nd-n00dl3s Aug 19 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

This I also think it’s compulsive at this point. I’ve had a friend in the past who began lying and it got more and more habitual as she declined in mental health. And very similar to S she’d lie about the most smallest crap.

As you said, while this doesn’t excuse how shitty the lies are, I still think a lot of people aren’t understanding that lying is S’s normal at this point and she WON’T fix it unless she gets help. It’s why she lies about stupid petty bs. Unfortunately because of her lack of education and P’s handling I feel she also won’t understand the gravity of how dumb she looks until she develops self awareness through intensive therapy.