I graduated with a bachelors in computer science around 4 years ago. Long story short, I was depressed, dysphoric, and suicidal throughout my college years and by the time I finished I didn’t want to do anything. I’ve been unemployed for the last 4 years but I’ve also transitioned, started taking better care of myself, and overall I feel much better.
Anyways, I need to get a job now. What kind of lies can I get away with on my resume to cover up the long period of unemployment? Should I pretend I started some sort of company and it failed? Pretend like I went on some backpacking journey in a foreign country? Do companies even check all this stuff?
I did do an internship at a big tech company several years ago, and I’m working on personal software projects so I can put that on my resume. Also, I’m in Amerikkka.
Sorry if this question has been asked here before 
Everything and anything. That internship? Its a job now. Also you're not unemployed you're self employed and all those data projects are samples. If you don't feel confident throw in remote work of something simple and easy to lie on like data entry/rating. If they do personality testing study UNICRU. I have gaps of 4-7yrs and that's what I do.
Most companies for entry lvl don't check I was told the rule of thumb for checking is above 50k or so as well as sensitive work, but jobs like that physically aren't going to hire me in rural chudland just by looking at me.