When I was in college I got into some prescription drugs and couldn't sleep at night. People started asking me what was going on or what was wrong and I made up that I can't sleep at night because I have been seeing things. I made up a little girl who followed me around and described my little sister at a younger age. My uncle freaked when he heard about it because our great great aunt looked just like that and was killed at a young age from a loaded rifle falling off of the chimney and shooting her in the chest. I made up a man that I see all the time wearing a brown suit and my mom freaked because her Dad (who I never met) was buried in a brown suit. Some things have happened for real though but that is for a different discussion. What happened though is I met my wife and slowly but surely she talked to her parents about it. It turns out that my wife had a cousin off himself and that his mother had been having a really terrible time with it. So I went with what I have been saying and made some things up when my wife's aunt was around. Things like "I'm seeing things out of the corner of my eye" or "feeling the need to hug and have conversations with her" Well one night I was having a conversation about my wife's cousin with a different family member it occurred to me "I could use this to help her and get out of this lie" So I told my wife while talking with another family member that I had a crazy experience and something was pushing me to tell her aunt that it was not her fault. I used this and told my wife that this may be the reason why I was seeing things in the first place, that after I talked to my wife about it I stopped seeing things since. So a little bit of a lie helped a couple people cope with some really hard situations and I'm still sitting here popping prescription meds. Nah I am just kidding on the meds but the whole situation was hard to talk about and had to be eased in and out of.