Why do they do that? - Making things up
Hi All,
In my journey to understand why my ex boyfriend is an alcoholic, why I am drawn to alcoholics and what I can do to change this, I keep coming across technical definitions for the strange and baffling behaviour we see in our alcoholics.
This will now be a series of "Why do they do that?"
Making things up
How it looks:
Your alcoholic will "remember" things you said or that s/he said from the past.
You have no idea what they are talking about; their memory seems distorted.
What it is: Confabulation
Dictionary - Confabulate
con·fab·u·late Audio pronunciation of "confabulate" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kn-fby-lt)
intr.v. con·fab·u·lat·ed, con·fab·u·lat·ing, con·fab·u·lates
1. To talk casually; chat.
2. Psychology. To fill in gaps in one's memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.
con·fabu·lation n.
con·fabu·lator n.
con·fabu·la·tory adj.
[Latin cnfbulr, cnfbult- : com-, com- + fbulr, to talk (from fbula, conversation. See fable).]
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