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By Joyce Alexander, RNP (Retired)

Psychopaths sometimes don’t  know enough about how the rest of the world thinks to tell a “good” lie. I saw the following article about North Korea’s soccer team and how they had been apparently caught in a doping scandal, but were claiming that it was really an herbal medication that made them test positive for steroids.

Just what will Kim Jong-Il make of all this? North Korea say medicine using musk deer glands caused five players to fail drug tests

The excuse given was that the team members had been struck by lightening and they had decided, heroically, to compete anyway. The steroids were accidentally taken with traditional Chinese medicines.

I have recently found other articles about the “stories” of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-II, that made me laugh out loud. In one article, he supposedly played his first round of golf and scored a 38, including five holes-in-one.

One of the things I have noticed about many psychopaths, and others who frequently lie, is that their lies are so “off the wall” that no one over three years old would believe a word of them. They will “lie when the truth will fit better” is a saying I’ve heard all my life. This seems to be especially true with pathological liars and psychopaths.

Dr. Robert Hare, well-known psychopathy researcher, says that psychopaths have difficulty realizing that their lies are unbelievable, even when the evidence that they are untrue is literally in front of them. In some way, the two sides of their brains can’t connect the evidence in front of their eyes.

An example of this are the lies told by Casey Anthony when she led the police to the place she supposedly worked, even going to a cubical, when she knew that she didn’t work for that company. She also lied about  leaving her daughter with “Zanny the Nanny,” when such a person didn’t exist. Anthony even led the police to the door of the empty apartment with the police in tow.

Not all liars are psychopaths, but all psychopaths are liars. Liars signal that they are not to be trusted. But if you hear a lie that is so outrageous that it makes you laugh out loud, or have the feeling that the person telling it must be “crazy—”look out! You very well may be dealing with a psychopath.

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  1. Louise

    Well, I hate to let you all know this, BUT…my X spath kind of looks like Daniel Craig!!! I know!!!!! UGGHH. British, too. Sigh. He doesn’t look exactly like him of course, but they do have a resemblance. A strong resemblance.

  5. Louise

    skylar:

    Yep, I noticed Berkowitz’s face is wide like a lot of the rest of them. It’s amazing. Even the woman who was in triangulation with me who is a pathological liar has a very round face. Not wide, but round. Just for the record, I have a long, thin face 🙂

  7. KatyDid

    Hens
    Morgan Freeman made a movie in our small town. That is when I fell in love with him. I still love Shawshank Redemption movie, and his voice but my passion has waned since he was caught cheating on his wife…with his cousin. ecth….

    Ya’ll comparing faces? One of my husband’s lines, which at one time I found so funny and charming, was “ME?! With my honest face!?!” His line worked every time, he could get away with so much mischief. Esp older women loved that line. My husband has a classic Cary Grant handsome face, better looking as he got older. Oh I so wish we could identify them with some kind of congenital flaw…. but we know them by their deeds…IF any face showed his spathiness, it was his kill face. He had NO emotion at all, flat, his eyes would glaze over like he could see all but was on auto pilot while his body moved to one set purpose, not quick moves, just one speed until the deed was done, then he’d have that excited thrilled look, that bloodthirst look, I called it his Orgasm face (okay I really called it his F face but I can’t write that here.)

  8. Louise

    KatyDid:

    I agree about Morgan Freeman…great voice, BUT…he did some not so nice things later in his life.

    Wow, Katy…what a crapper you had. Sounds like you really had a demon there.

    My X spath would actually look like a gleeful devil…that extremely mischievous look. It was something.

  9. KatyDid

    OMG!! I read your link Skylar! Among a serial killer’s fans are a JUDGE and the DIRECTOR of HOUSTON’S MAJOR CRIME VICTIMS OFFICE. Ya wonder why we can’t get justice? The article is old so maybe those people no longer have positions of power. I can only hope.

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