NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Confabulation is a symptom of various memory disorders in which made-up stories fill in any gaps in memory. German psychiatrist Karl Bonhoeffer coined the term “confabulation” in 1900. He used it to describe when a person gives false answers or answers that sound fantastical or made up.

Detailed explanation-2: -Confabulation is not lying. Their brains simply filled in some missing spots with false information. Some people have called this “honest lying". Confabulations are not delusions. Both involve false beliefs, but confabulation almost always involves a memory, while delusions are less anchored in the real world.