I blamed myself, not others…!
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I have one freind who keeps in touch but I don’t see much now as she has child I met her as a penpals
I have another penpals for five years who is on olanzapine I haven’t actually met him but we email every day
I am going to support group and I have met two people we exchanged phone numbers and are going to creative writing group in September
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This is real life and we are your friends. This reminds me of my old boss who used to say the employees would never make it in the real world. Guess she thought customers smearing ■■■■ on the walls was making our life easier???
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I am blessed -
I have a friend that is more like another daughter to me. She is 9 years younger than me and has Cerebral Palsy. I was best friends with her Mom until she died and have known her since she was 14.
I taught her to drive, was there for the birth of her daughter and through many other life events. She is supportive of me but I am usually in the role of caregiver to her.
Then I have a friend that I was really close to that since I was diagnosed has distanced herself. I understand totally but I miss our friendship.
Otherwise - I have FB “friends” and acquaintances, my immediate family, and this forum. It might not be much but I am content.
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I dont have many friends only 2 of the friends i had growing up…but i only talk to them once or twice a month…i feel like no one would want to be my friend either…i would really love to be friends with someone who goes thru what i go thru.
Why i sighned up and this site really helps me to not feel so alone
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Thankyou so much 
Me too, it is mostly the only way I can socialise
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I have no friends in real life. I can count the number of friends I’ve had on one hand with room to spare. I don’t go out much and don’t do social groups. When I’ve done social groups in the past I’ve not connected with anyone. Years ago I did a swimming group. A lot of the men got to be pals and met up with each other I was never included. Knowing how to interact with other people is something I really struggle with. I’m especially bad at initiating conversations , and if spoken to giving the right responses to keep a conversation going . My social skills are reckoned to be very poor.
Over the years I’ve become quite asocial and can’t say I feel that lonely. My main reason for wanting occasional interaction is being bored with my own company . Not enough though to go out of my way to find it. I do think a lot of it - the difficulty with social interaction, the asociality-is to do with autistic traits/NVLD more than a product of the mental illness though paranoia and social anxiety play their part.
I say this because my social difficulties were present a long time before the mental illness symptoms really kicked off. I wasn’t one of those who had friends only to lose them as I got ill from the effects of the illness or other people’s attitudes. I had no friends . Unlike many with severe mental illness there wasn’t a decline in social functioning as the illness developed. Social functioning was at rather a low level anyway.
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I have one friend. But I don’t want to bore her with my depression right now so we’re not meeting up at the moment.
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i have no friends, haven’t had a friend in over ten years
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Got one close friend. But I dont see him that often anymore, he moved to another city some years ago. But my girlfriend is the company I need anyways.
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I really wish I had friends.
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No friends where i reside as of now but where i use to live i got quite a mix group of people. I still talk to them on the phone and ig at least once every week or two. If i still lived in the bay area i would visit almost all them every other day but i dont so nobody to hang with in person for the time being. Hopefully things change when i move back to the west coast
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What you expect of a friend? I got people I socialize with. Sometimes friends feel like brothers or sisters.
People I share my moods with. Like a question “How are You?” And give a honest answer. Great socialize with people without consuming anything, i mean spending money.
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I seem to end up hating my friends after some time
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I have some friends I don’t se often and a few friends I do see often.
Most of my friends live other places because either them or I have moved, but they understand I can’t always reply to messages and such, and that I try to reply when I can.
I have a lot of online friends, although some of my real-life friends claim they can’t be called “friends” as I haven’t met them in person.
I’m a bit choosy in who I make my friends.
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I need money not friends; friends sucks
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I have a lot friends but I distance my self from everyone and avoid them bcuz of the embarrassment of past actions I know they don’t care but I still feel shame of acting out when I wasn’t on meds so I’d rather go thru life solo
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I had one friend from college she became a PhD psychologist I told her I was diagnosed SZA and I have never heard from her again.
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