Why do some people lie? While this may seem like a loaded question – and it is to some degree – it’s critical to answer this question (and many others) in order to developing a better understanding as to why some criminal offenders are willing to go to the extreme lengths to feign or fake symptoms of chronic or terminal illness, whereas the rest of population is doing everything they can simply to avoid the propsect of disability or disease. although lying about one’s physical and mental health status is not a relatively new concept in modern society, the notion the glamorizing, fantasizing, and role-roleplaying a diagnosis of rare, incurable, and often significantly disabling conditions as part of one’s online persona or profile is rather
