I'm a 17 year old boy and I suffer from ADD and take medication to help me in school life. In the last few years I've developed am addiction to lying.

I lie a lot and over the smallest things, Recently I was caught out in a big lie by someone close to me and had a serious thought about why I do it and this was the first time I had considered that I have a problem. when I was confronted about the lie I got home and started to think about how I could prove I wasn't lying, I made fake text messages on my phone to prove it (this wasn't the first time I had done this). Once I had done this I was laying in bed and started to right this after realising I had a problem.

I have no problem lying to people and will happily lie to someone close to me like a family member even when It is not necessary, for example what I did that day or over the weekend. It sounds odd but when I am telling a lie I believe that it it true and almost fake memories I my head about it even though it didn't.

The reason that triggered the lies is unknown to me, I had a normal upbringing where the only bad thing that happened to me was my parents divorced which to be honest never really bothered me. Other than that my life is boring. I go to a good school and have no other problems.

The only possible reason why I do it so often is that I enjoy the sort of thrill of lying, I often get bored of my life and always wish that something would change. The lies I tell are always realistic but are more exciting that what ever the truth was, like when I go on holiday I might say I was staying at the same resort as a celebrity, normally small lies that are believable but there are a lot of them.

I don't really know what else to say about it only that I need to change as it's not a healthy why to live.