Hello and welcome back to Your Absolute Mind. I'm your host Paula Sweet and today we're delving into a topic that's woven into the fabric of everyday life but it often goes unnoticed or undiscussed. In today's podcast we're talking about lying and deceit and how this can have an impact on our mental health. Now, I know this isn't

usually a topic that comes up when we talk about mental health, but do bear with me. I know we've

all heard the saying that honesty is the best policy, right? But let's be totally honest with

ourselves right here, right now.

We've all told a little white lie at some point in our lives.

Whether it's telling a friend that their new haircut looks fabulous,

when in reality you think it looks like a lawnmower has run a mock on the head.

Or simply just nodding along when your grandma tells the same story for the 10th time,

pretending like it's the first time you've heard it over and over again. Sometimes we lie because we

think it's the nicest thing to do. And sometimes that's right. If the option is to be nice or to

hurt somebody, then being nice is always the best option.

But on a more serious note, have you ever stopped and wondered the kind of impact that lies,

and especially the bigger and more deceitful ones can have on our mental health?

The truth might just surprise you. Now when we lie,

it creates a real mental burden, an overload. This is due to the fact that each time we lie,

our brain has to work overtime just to remember the details of every single lie. It's a little bit like

juggling. Each lie is another ball thrown into the air and sooner or later becomes a stressful

endeavour just to keep everything afloat and one wrong move could result in everything come crashing down.

Now just imagine how much our brain has to remember

if we tell a few lies at a time.

Try to think back to a time where perhaps you've told a lie

and you've had to remember all the intricate details,

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