“I faked my identity to my best friend.”

I know this’ll make me sound like Martha from baby reindeer but I needed an outlet and maybe some advice from people on the outside looking in. So I’m a compulsive liar and I have been for the longest time, my very close loved ones know this and can accept it because I do not lie to them simply because they know I respect them and know them well enough not to. I feel guilty about lying to people who care about me and who I too care about, I don’t really know why I do it but experiences with awfu