pathological line is compulsive and the lies don't have a clear motive or benefit it can seem like lying for the sake of lying some people start to believe their lies and have trouble even knowing what the truth is when that happens it's pointless to challenge the person on their lives because they may have gotten so lost in the lies that they can't even dig their way out there's therapy to help increase the person's insight into their lives and identify what triggers the behavior so for that person it could be helpful to help them recognize that
their storytelling is harmful to others and themselves there isn't a specific medication to keep people from lying but if you treat the lying like a compulsion where the person becomes very anxious if they don't lie or uses the lies to compensate for some obsessional thinking that they have then it's possible that they may experience some improvement from taking an antidepressant similar to what we use for treating obsessive-compulsive disorder
