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Back when I was an emergency services dispatcher, there was a psychology term used to describe the behaviour when a person unintentionally 'amplified' a situation to make it seem more serious than it really was. For example, say there was a small fender bender. The person would report it as a serious crash with injuries or whatever.
Back when I was an emergency services dispatcher, there was a psychology term used to describe the behaviour when a person unintentionally 'amplified' a situation to make it seem more serious than it really was. For example, say there was a small fender bender. The person would report it as a serious crash with injuries or whatever.
Seriously, I don't know, but they are people who are trying to enhance their own importance and, unfortunately, there are sure a lot of them out there.
Technically, in the psych/mental health field, confabulation means filling in blanks in your memory with stories, that are not quite lies, as the person usually believes them. We see confabulation often in people with dementia, partly because they are distressed and also embarrassed by their memory lapses.
In common parlance, confabulation is stretched to mean "inflated storytelling" in general.
People who genuinely confabulate are not intentionally lying, and they are not attention-seeking. They are attempting, usually unsuccessfully, to cope with memory loss, and trying not to alarm people or let on that they don't remember.
Oh okay, thank you for clarifying. I might be thinking of something else then..
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