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How constant lying can blur your grasp of reality

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The mental gymnastics required to maintain a web of lies eventually erode your own grasp on truth. By constantly generating parallel, fake realities to trick others, your brain slowly loses track of the original, objective facts. Chronic deceivers literally break their own internal compass, eventually finding themselves trapped in a maze of their own psychological design.

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