I lost many. I wrote nonsense on FB and they stopped talking to me. One of my best friends, now a cardiologist, stopped talking to me after he visited me in mental hospoital. I don’t know why. I knew him for more than 15 years and he told me to get a degree in physio so I did.
Another friend, the son of a priest, also stopped talking to me since I got in mental hospital. I told him I am in a mental hospital when he called me.
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I lost all of my friends. Good for me because then I realized they weren´t good friends.
Now I have some more, but i´m still not very enthusiastic to open myself too much as I was before.
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Honestly if I did, I don’t remember them so they couldn’t have been good friends. I always made friends with troubled people though, so they’ve been there for me like I’ve been there for them. I’m very fortunate I think. Blessed even really. I’m sorry you guys lost friends 
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No, other than the loss of some college friends from having to move back in with my parents, but everyone from my childhood is still with me.
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Just people I thought were friends. Good riddance.
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Friends ?! Had one boy at prep school I was closer to ,or so I thought . Years later I found him on Twitter . I made a short tweet to show I remembered where he came from ( not town or county) and he promptly blocked me . He’d developed a liking for soft porn models . No friends at public school .
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I didn’t have any friends when my illness got bad. Two of them went different ways in life that had nothing to do with me or my illness. I had ditched the two or three friends I had grown up with months or a year before I started acting weird. I abandoned my friends, they didn’t abandon me. So I got in the mental health system and went in my first psyche ward and then my first group home with no friends. I made new friends over the years but not a lot.
I also lost all my friends
I am grateful my family have supported me though
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I lost all my friends and most of my family… I am on my own pretty much!
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I didn’t lose any friends, because I didn’t have any friends in the first place. My behavior was outrageous, though. Maybe pernicious is a better word. I get pretty crazy if I don’t get my med’s.
I lost all of my old friends. Now I have family, my fiancée, mental health workers, and animals.
I lost some too. But as I started to get treatment I made new ones and reconnected with others that didn’t know I was sick, but they’re now part of my support system.
Yes cause i isolate me
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Yeah I did but we made up years later. Psychosis is traumatizing to go through both for the person experiencing it firsthand and for outside participants.
I lost my family in a way. Dont feel welcome anymore.
I lost most of my friends. Some stopped talking to me and others I lost because of my fears of stigma and rejection. My close family have been very supportive.
I only have friends that lives far away. I have no friends in my town.
no friends either myself…they weren’t loyal
I lost all my friends, but one that i only rarely have contact with.
I made/am making a few new ones that like me as i am, including the issues.
My two closest friends are still my friends but I have decided to isolate myself from them cos of post psychotic anxiety.
There is some people from my past I would have liked to rekindle with but I don’t know if I have the ability to do that anymore cos of anxiety pressure and psychosis consequences
Love your insightfulness.
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