Why does my friend lie so much?

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Ok my friend Patrick will lie about stuff that can't even happen. He is 17 and dropped out of high school when he was 16 and has no job. He is 5 foot six inches, skinny and can't even bench 60 pounds and weighs 133 pounds. He says that everyone is scared of him and claims he can beat my brother up with one hand which is 6 foot 5 inches and weighs 300 pounds and can bench 250 pounds. He says he can get any girl and all the smokin hot girls like him and yet every girl friend he's had looked like they stuck their face in a grinder. He says he is going to get a job making $120,000 a year which drop outs usually don't even make $35,000 a year. He seems to believe his own lies like he is telling the truth. My brother gave him $50 one time and he promised to pay him back but never gave him a penny but that was when he had no job but then he got a job and had the money to pay it but he never did and said he had bills or something (which he lives with his parents and pays nothing) I really don't get this dude and I am a good friend to him.

Below are a few of the many lies he has said.





Lie1: When I got my permeant and I got all 20 questions right and he said he had 50 questions and got them all right, which is impossible cause there has always been 20 and I asked to see his permeant and he said he lost it in his other wallet.



Lie2: Im 6 foot 7 inches and weigh 163 pounds. One time when he spent the night I wanted to show him how much I could eat and ate 5 big plates of spaghetti with meat in it and later that night he said him and his friend one time ate 50 pizzas exactly and I said "they must of been really small" and he said "no they were 3 times bigger than average size". I looked up the world record for most pizzas ate a week later and it said someone ate 34 average size pizzas.



Lie3: When I graduated high school my mom and dad got me a really nice car (mitsubishi eclipse) and a couple months later he shows me pictures of the car he's getting in 2 months (which he never got) which costs over $50,000. He acts like my car sucks.



Lie3: He says he is getting a job as a waitress at pizza hut making $800 a day ($292,000 a year) in tips. He says his friend makes $500 a day ($182,000 a year) in tips. Even if that was true he is still too stupid to know you pay taxes on that. Im going to a technical school to be a computer engineer and make at least $200,000 a year so maybe he wants to say he can make more but theirs a difference between saying and having.



Lie4: He became a father with his girl friend kasey when he was 16 and now he's broke up with her and she has the baby I said when he turns 18 he will have to pay child support and he says that she won't go at him with child support. (The government will) Now he is saying that the baby is not his.



Lie5: Most of the things I say about how good I did on something he will say within a week or two that he just did better than me. But he never proves it.



I don't understand why he has to lie so much. I can't have conversation without him lying. I can tell every lie he says cause usually he exaggerates it to extreme levels that's impossible to beat. It's really starting to get annoying. I think he has mental disorders or in other words he's retarded, considering he dropped out of school cause it was too hard for him. I thought my school was easy (I get strait A's) but my school moved him to an easy school cause he was failing where the teachers would let you pass pretty much and you can be absent for two weeks at a time but that was still too hard for him.



I got lot's of other friends (about 23 and are really awesome) from high school I hang out with and 24 others i could hang out with but I try to keep all my friends from knowing Patrick. In fact he thinks I have very little friends. The less he comes over the more I hang out with them.Why does my friend lie so much?
he has what is know as a "God Complex". He thinks he's better than everyone else and he thinks that whatever he says is law/final/etc.
umm easy stop being friends with him because friends don't lie that much. and tell him to have common sense.Why does my friend lie so much?
What you wrote is fine, in fact I like reading, anyways... He could either be going mad, having mental disorders or he just bumped his head. There are 5 types of lying conditions. I'm quite lazy to type all the definitions so I'll give you the website instead.
He's insecure and he doesn't want you to know how bad he feels about his own life. Although maybe you should just let him read what you've written about him- then he can see what a good 'friend' you are and he will be able to stop worrying about it.



Seriously, if you are too embarrassed to have him meet your friends then you aren't all that great yourself and basically care what other people think of you as much as he does.



If you actually want to act like a really friend to this guy then maybe you could stop bragging about how great you do in school, what a great you car your rich parent's have given you and how much you're going to earn and start thinking about what it might be like for him to hear these things.Why does my friend lie so much?
Maybe, that's the habit of him.

However, don't ask people why he lies so much. Just ask yourself why he still lies in case you're his friend.

Why don't you give him advice? It might change his mind.

Tell lie only brings trouble.

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