I used to have so many friends before SzA. I used to see people all the time. Then SzA happened and I stopped seeing people so regularly even though we went to the same college. Now I feel like all I don’t get phone calls or hang out requests from old friends because of that period of 4 years I was untreated that I was very distant. Pity I really wish I had consistent friends now a days. I really need some socializing.
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I feel exactly the same. I am in the same situation as you are.
Sza isolates me too.
there was a group of us that hung with some older guys but it was ok, we got on well and we all went to a friends house to play tekken and that, the guy came on to me once but i did not reciprocate, he was ok though.
i got unwell about this time and then we all drifted apart due to leaving school and work etc.
My diagnosis was recent (4 years) so I kinda stopped calling my friends a couple years back. Trying now to reconnect with them.
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i dont think i will ever reconnect with my friends from that time and tbh i dont really care, i have made new friends and they mean a lot to me 
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I had mostly drifted away from old friends pre-sz because I had quit drinking and all of my friend still drank a lot and were a threat to me. I really had no friends left to lose at that point. Later on, I realized that the people I drifted away from weren’t really friends anyhow as true friends would have supported me in quitting drinking, not tried to pull me back into the world of booze and bars.
It bothered me then, but not today.
Yes, I did. I had a nice group of friends. There is only one friend (or befriended couple) left from before my becoming ill now. I have been really sad about that… my best friend of before that time, with whom I shared a lot, even lived together for a while, quit contacting me because our friendship was no longer equal. I was sick and needed care, couldn’t be a fun and involved friend anymore. I understand I couldn’t give much in our friendship at that time, because I was only surviving, but still it disappointed me that such a close friend - she was even the first to know I was pregnant, before the father of my child - dumped me because of being ill.
Right now I have got only a few friends and mostly new ones made during my ill years. They were unjudgemental enough to connect and stick with me through hardship. Some of them have got their own troubles too, e.g. one friend is bipolar, so they understand better.
But still sad about the friends I lost. I wish I had more close friends. I’m Always a little jealous of people who are still having the friends that they got to know early in life.
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