I notice that sometimes people Im friends with will ghost me or end up judging me and no longer stay friendly to me do people disappoint you? I find people very disappointing
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Before I was diagnosed, I used to push my friends away, because of my psychosis/delusions. Plenty of friends left my life.
One friend stayed, though. I’ve known her almost my whole life. And turns out that we both have schizoaffective disorder. So, I can be really open with her.
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Yes. Ive also abandoned people when the friendship was deemed to not be healthy.
I dumped all the friends i partied with.
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I got ditched at a rave in the middle of the night in a dangerous area by someone. Then the same person ditched me in the middle of the night, again. Shouldn’t have trusted them the second time.
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Loads of so called friends are there no more.
Maybe there more embarrassed about me than I am regarding myself & poor mental health.
Oh well. Done me the favour! There not friends lmao…just old associates I would say
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I had a pdoc who I thought was my friend just up and abandon me altogether.
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Every single person I’ve ever known has betrayed me. I’m obviously the problem somehow. Bad judge of character maybe.
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Yep! Betrayal and abandoned.
The way I see it is that those people were not my friends to begin with.
And if we ever cross paths again and they need my help then they will be charged accordingly.
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I also find people usually disappointing, so thats why I dont have many friends anymore, I stopped investing.
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I have always been a person with few friends. The few I have are still close although they are very busy with family life amongst other things, so it’s understandable we don’t see each other very much these days.
I got betrayed a couple of times in my childhood at school though. Apparently they deemed me not good enough to hang out with and the response was to harass me instead. I guess some kids are like that. If you’re not a friend you are a enemy by default. But I’ve never been betrayed by someone I have considered a close friend.
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That’s surprising. You seem like a quality fellow here on the forum. Your posts always seems well considered and empatic when required.
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Thanks @Mr_Hope
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I intentionally don’t keep in contact with many friends because I got sick and don’t want to talk about it. Everybody always asks me why I am not flying anymore. The question gets old. I have told a few people but most don’t know I am sick. So I avoid most of my military friends. Most of them are still flying or own their own businesses or have a really good second career.
I have a few friends I grew up with I still talk to though. I know they know I am sick and that I tried to kill myself but they don’t ask me about it.
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I lost lots of friends during my 2nd psychosis where I wrote offensive and nonsense stuff on FB, lots of friends unfriended me and stopped talking to me including my best friend. I also lost my 2nd best friend after I called him from mental hospital and told him to pick me up from there. He never spoke to me again.
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I still have a few friends now but we rarely hangout now vs before sz.
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Ah yes, I’m well familiar with the topic of this thread. All my “close” friends betrayed me or left me behind once they realize they didn’t have me on a controllable leash anymore. I was subject to manipulation and more.
All I do now is talk to my cousins and keep non family relationships a little distant. I’m a sad about the fall out with me and my so called compadres? The fact they let me go is proof they were never long term companions to begin with.
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You are very lucky to have a friend in real life with the same diagnosis
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I changed my number - and very few people have it.
And no social media accounts.
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When I had voices what I heard and believed was the most horrific betrayal ever by family and friends.
Nowadays I don’t want to be everyone’s bi tch and I don’t want to be disrespected or dominated and I also don’t want jealous friends who compare themselves to me and i don’t want “friends “ who supress me and think they are my superior.
I want friends who love me and maybe we can share a laugh and or feel comfortable in each other company and be able to chill and play and be nice to each other.
I have a few x boyfriends that are genuine friends and I have a few female aqua intenseness I don’t see much but can have comfortable chat with and one female in spirit best friend but i don’t have friends in person and i don’t have friends to hang out with or chat with.
I call my friend Anders sometimes.
I email my favourite sweetie sometimes
And my other favourite friend sometimes
I have one girl who was my best friend and we email each other once s year to say merry Christmas unfortunately we are not close anymore.
I have another girl say we are besties but we don’t have contact in person or online.
I have Facebook friends but all we do is see each other’s posts.
But that’s nice.
I would love to meet new people where we have mutual love and respect anc kindness and can be friends or friendly acquaintances .
I had one girl who used to bake for me and she said I was her best friend but when I was psychotic something happened and I think she broke all contacts with me.
I can’t remember.
Black out a bit but do remember I was Muslim that period .
She voted for vänsterpartiet and I voted miljöpartiets.
Now I vote animal justice party.
My closest loved one is right winged.far right with hunting n sh it.only animals that are not endangered or only those that do harm to farm like fox and rabbit and … I don’t agree.
It hurt losing friends.
I loved them so so much.
Sometimes they were bad sometimes I was bad but I would be a better friend nowadays plus I’m more zain nowadays.
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I really haven’t had any friends abandon or betray me lately. My sister told me though not to call or text her anymore. I’m not on good terms with her or her husband now.
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