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This was a load of over-blown hot air


Ok, she seemed to have no friends really - she had ex-friends mainly - and why was that? She kept using people, lying to them, then disappearing.

Compulsive liars disappear when their lies get on top of the situation.

Someone said in the film she didn't lie - but she did! She told her friend she had a good job, but he found out it was cleaner. She made out she was well educated, but she had only lower qualifications, plus none what-so-ever in mathematics, but she was meant to work in finance. They were surprised at all this because she had created a lie, I also presume she lied her way into jobs to get round having no quals.

Sadly she died alone, but she'd let everyone down all over the place.

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It's still a sad story and has some social commentary behind it. I thought the film was quite unbiased.

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You've made some valid points.

She only informed folks on what she wanted them to know. Also, she told one of the co-workers that she had to take off personal time because of her father passing away.

The co-workers were shocked to discover that her Father died after she did.

But we have all done what she has done at one point of our life. We've all tried to "fit" in. When most of us were young, we were still trying to find ourselves. I believe because her Mom died so early, she was distant from her Father and had to have her sisters raise her, she didn't developed as well emotionally. One of her ex-boyfriends mentioned this.

I think she used relationships to cope and the last relationship was extremely bad which landed her in the refuge for domestic abuse victims.

She moved into the bedsit in March 2003, had the ulcer operation in November 2003 and died in December 2003. I took from the movie that we have to become more responsible for our emotional help, try and obtain help when we need it and cultivate some strong relationships for tough times.

She might have felt so used and distrustful by the time she moved into the flat, she preferred to be alone. Or she might have been hiding from the abuser and didn't want to contact her family so that the abuser could not find her. She was wrapping presents so they might have been for some of the family members.

However, I believe she could have reached out to someone between March 2003 - November 2003. She could have written one of her sisters or wrote Martin. She could telephoned someone to informed them of where she was located.

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Compulsive liars disappear when their lies get on top of the situation.


I've never seen this documentary but heard about it recently. I've known compulsive/pathological liars and I always assumed it's a form of mental illness because they start believing everything they say. To them it isn't lies. The difference seems to be is they weren't seeking to be alone. You could confront them with the lie, usually they would become angry, or still deny they lied, but they never tried to cut ties. I did.

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