(a) âDependent adultâ means any person between the ages of 18 and 64 years who resides in this state and who has physical or mental limitations that restrict his or her ability to carry out normal activities or to protect his or her rights, including, but not limited to, persons who have physical or developmental disabilities, or whose physical or developmental abilities have diminished because of age.
Understanding of Individual's Psychological Stability. Psychological stability is the other factor in determining if someone is a pathological liar. Many people habitually lie due to a mental illness such as bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder or depression. Many mental illness sufferers have misconceptions about what is reality.
This leads to the all-important question: how often do people lie in their daily lives? In a paper published in 2010 in Human Communication Research, Kim B. Serota, Timothy R. Levine, Franklin J. Boster tackled this exact issue in three separate studies.2) Only 40.1% of the sample reported telling a lie in the past 24 hours. (3) 22.7% of all lies were told by one percent of the sample, and half of all of the lies were told 5.3% of the sample.