There's also some "voluntary cover" involved; people who know things are eager to tell what they know as well as avoid the consequences. So they're likely to ad

There's also some "voluntary cover" involved; people who know things are eager to tell what they know as well as avoid the consequences. So they're likely to add a dose of crazy too, to disassociate what might be recognizably their experiences into something they can deny at need. Few people tell their stories with full fidelity anyway, we gloss over our mistakes and make everything better and less banal by instinct.