actually, you've been assistant manager for a location of a company that recently went into liquidation for the last three years
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i guess i could ask for people to help me lie, but im anxious that'd negatively impact them somehow. like idk the person im trying to employ at contacts the company and tells them the person was lying for me. idk how founded that fear is but anxiety's crazy.
It doesn't need to be somewhere they've actually worked at, you could find a company that recently went under and say you had been working there. This is probably a lot more extravagant than what you would need to go through but I once asked someone how they got their first job in IT and they said they registered a fake LLC and claimed they had been working for that company for the past several years and had a friend listed as one of the employees.
ig im worried about how that'd look on linkedin, then 
not sure how easy it is to list fake businesses and such there
Oh it's super easy. Most places won't go through the effort of verifying half the information on your resume. I had a coworker who just straight up lied about having their degree.
I didn't even need to lie about that people just assumed i had one and i didn't correct them lol
There is a good chance that they don't call your references, if they even ask for them in the first place.
i logically know this, because i know they don't really care and you can just lie, but anxiety is crazy lmao
remember that every company lies to you. every company I ever worked for did
TRUE
I will lie for you about whatever if needed
also i broke my perfect non-posting streak for this 
hey spectre, linking here advice.
i'd only just reiterate: if it were as easy as "lying" you would've done it by now. it's not, obviously-- you're in a psychic pickle, and its not easy.
you need to start building up your resilience a little each day, and make a little holistic progress each day, and eventually you'll have enough momentum and enough things falling your way that you'll be out of it. it will require self-forgiveness, humility and courage, but you are totally capable of this. you will feel very strong and proud of yourself.
(happy to bounce around ideas specific to your situation if that would be helpful)
This is basically my plan when I'm not super anxious spiralling lol
I'm in therapy rn but it's gonna take a while cos i just got out of an abuse situation
Just reminding you that it's not your fault, it's the system's. Unemployment is a <300 year-old concept, everyone worked before that, and it was fine because, like, are we really lacking things to do in this world? Unemployment is an unnecessary evil, and it's NOT YOUR FAULT that you're unemployed right now.
you're going to be fine comrade! the bosses need us, we don't need them! I have had so many months and years long gaps in my resume and people don't care. you'll be able to make it. just hang in there. i'm jealous that you've been unemployed for so long.
You are a VETERAN doing a tour in the Reserve Army Of Labor. Park in those Veteran's spaces with pride o7