I think I´m starting to realize I was psychologically bullied by “friends” in some sneaky ways. They were laughing and doing cruel jokes when I was psychotic.
It´s hard to admit it because it happened with people that I trusted, and sometimes I really miss their company.
It has really grown on me the man is a wolf to man mentality. It´s very hard for me to trust anybody, make friends, leave alone to have a partner…
I have new people around me, but I don´t let no one know me enough.
If you are dreaming of this. Who is the dreamer. Bullying is complex. Sometimes they are your best allies friends and company. But why?
I don´t know man, I would never do that to anyone.
Do what to anyone?
what they did to me. I explained it in my post.
Ok. Whats wrong with learning to love yourself.
You sound wise.
Yeah my “friends” were ■■■■■■■ a$$holes. It’s funny people you would do anything for wouldn’t even give you the time of day and let you slip completely into psychosis. It pisses me off that i ever even cared about them
I was bullied by family members when psychotic.
Maybe they werent the bullies though. Maybe they were being controlled by hidden hands.
I think I experienced some of the same—but given that I was psychotic, some of the bullying I experienced may have not been real. I think they accused me of being a snake. Also other patients at the psych ward said some rude stuff to me, some of which may have not been real. It’s hard to tell how much hostility was my mind’s fabrication.
It happened opposite to me. My class fellows friends took me to pshycritric doctor. Then the doctor called for my family members and started treatment.
Don’t encourage delusional or magical thinking.
I’m autistic. Didnt mean to make false referals. Just a metaphore.
Same here. So what?
Autistic isn’t an excuse for posting things that can encourage delusions. I don’t know why you led off with that.
I’m tired of it being used as an excuse for poor behaviour. That’s what causes stigma for others.
Same here @dreamer54.
My experience was a little different though— got bullied on the job by customers and coworkers.
Some customers were okay, but every single person I worked with were dicks.
Example (TW—animal in pain, gruesome):
Driving to work one day, I saw a poor deer that had been unfortunately hit by a car. The deer was sprawled out on the median, bleeding profusely, disoriented, and probably dying as cars whizzed by at 65 mph.
There was nothing I could do, and I just lost it and started crying.
Show up to work about 15 mins late, compose myself as best as I can, but my coworkers can tell I was visibly shaken and that I’d been crying.
My manager asked, “are you okay? What happened?”
I explained what I saw.
My manager then proceeded to say in a mocking tone, “aww, poor Bambi.”
So yea… Some people are straight up cruel, dude.
…I shudder to think how I would have fared had I broken down and told them I was struggling with a serious mental illness at the time of my employment there.
Got seriously chewed on by a customer today when I tried to collect on outstanding premium. Wound up hanging up the phone on him when the profanity started. I’ll get the last laugh if he doesn’t pay tommorrow - I’ll just put his policy into cancellation.
Another example:
I worked in a semi-office environment, so think: professional-casual dress code.
I was going through psychosis and lacked some self-care basics.
I wore the same black cardigan to work almost every day.
One day, a higher-up employee that sometimes worked on location at my branch made an unprovoked, rude remark in front of everyone about how I never changed my sweater.
I dunno… Like there’s ways of showing concern or getting one’s point across nicely.
This guy did it just to be an a$$hole.