I should have a lot of them. I know some people but no enduring friendships. How about you?
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I’ve been quite selective with whom to really connect to there, but made two friends in the clinic. After many years, both are still loved and appreciated friends. They seem to me so much more sensitive, understanding, interesting and empathic than the normies I usually meet, that I value our contact majorly. Even if both them and me go through periods of hardship, where we can’t meet or even call, because one of us is too vulnerable. Maybe to share this, makes our contact better too.
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I met Anders in psychiatric hospital.
He took care of me and encouraged me to exercise with him.
We had great moments together and he gave me time and care in a way I had never experienced before.
He was my boyfriend.
He is my bestie now or one of my besties.
I might only have two friends anc we don’t chat or meet and they are both x.
I might have a girlfriend too but we haven’t got contact really.
He lives in Sweden and I talk with him on the phone but he has no internet.
He is so thoughtful, kind, funny and great.
I’m so thankful for Anders.
We have known each other over twenty years.
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I was friendly with some other people in psychiatric hospitals but we never kept in contact once we were released unfortunately.
One guy was so great and he was a aboriginal he said and he was nice and his mum wore home made leather clothes she made herself I think.
I met some nice girls too.
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Not a single one, thankfully.
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I’m talking to a girl that I met in intensive outpatient last year. She’s pretty cool and we vibe really well. I’ll see her when I get back from vacation and we’ll see where it goes…
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No, but me and a friend were in the same psyche ward at the same time. In my first psyche ward I almost had sex with this girl and she gave me her phone number. I didn’t call for more than a year but by that time I guess it was too late because I couldn’t reach her. I knew some guys in the long term hospital when I was 21 and ran into them later in various programs.
I met this girl when I was living alone and doing drugs and invited her to sleep over. She said yes, but later changed her mind. Months later I was in EPS and the staff was checking me in and I heard someone in the background talking loudly to themselves and it was the girl.
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Yes i met my girlfriend of three years so far in the ward.
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I don’t really make deep contacts with people. I have my trust issues with them. I always would just walk up and down the halls of the ward every time I had a stay in the hospital.
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Me neither, thankfully
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I kept in contact with one guy for a few months but we drifted apart
He made a weird temple thing for me in the courtyard out of chairs and plants as he thought I was the resurrection of Jesus
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I have no lifelong friends from my hospitalizations.
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Too much learned victimhood in that place as I recall. Didn’t need it following me home.
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Nope! The white supremacist, the jail dodger, the crazy ass women who would not leave me alone, and the pedophile piece of sh!t who had his own room. Nope! No relationships made. I was there for me and me alone.
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Mostly scary people there, except one nice young woman with a recent attempt whose mother liked to visit and complain about how inconvenient her daughter’s mental issues were for the whole family. I felt bad for her, hope things worked out in the end.
I had a strange godly thing about 7 or 8 years ago while in the psych with my current girlfriend
I was in my 20s when in mental hospital. A nice girl my age there wanted to go out with me but I refused as I already had a gf who has no mental illness outside the hospital. Later my gf left me and I am alone since then lol as I never get outside or socialize. Idk if I regret refusing the hospital girl, I didn’t want to cheat on my gf and maybe even her she would have left me due to my sz negative symptoms.
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The difference is that back then I was 140lb and now I am 310lb 
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I was only hospitalized once. No friendships from there.
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