Who here has 0 friends?

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I have two friends I talk to on a regular

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I didn’t have any friends for like 10 years. Then last December I started attending a day program. At first I just sat aside by myself and wouldn’t talk to anybody but over the last few months I’ve actually started talking to people and now consider a few of them friends. It’s hard work for me to keep up the social work required to be a friend to others but I’m slowly getting the hang of it. Last month I invited 2 of them over to my place for homemade lasagna and we actually socialized for 3 hours. That was the first time I actually had other people in my apartment.

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Count me in, I don’t really keep friends anymore.

Some died, some are in prison, all were bad news from my darker days.

Have to admit, I’m kind of scared to make friends, for one reason Or another.

I’m getting better about being friendly though

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I haven’t had friends for years. Now on risperidone my mind is blank around people and that makes me self conscious and worse. I dont think I will ever have friends now. But maybe that will change someday. I’m going to read a cognitive behavioral therapy book from the library about social anxiety

25

I have one really good friend from second grade. But that’s it. He works 60-70 hours per week so I don’t see him that much.

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I have a friend, but he lives in Madrid and I live in Girona. So we can’t meet so often. Only sometimes.

27

No friends-IRL . Some acquaintances online- I hesitate to call them friends.

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I have three friends
Two I’ve never met
One who I’ve known a long time who used to visit
It’s not much but better than nothing

29

Zero friends but i think its better this way. How can i explain i have a mentall illness? When someone finds out about sz they stop talking, ignore and other

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Zero friends.
I have online friends here on this forum and I like it that way

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31

My friends are all sza or ex serious drug addicts I met in recovery.

I couldn’t trust much no one else

32

I only have 1 IRL friend and he lives a 45 minute drive away from me.

33

I made friends in hospital. Of course you always here don’t make friends there but they taught me wrong.

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I have zero since kid, making friends is impossible for me because of my lack of social skills and anxiety. I really hate my social isolation but what can I do?.

i try to make friends at college but i have zero success, in my village people avoid me because of my illness. The lack of affect is killing me.

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Where are you from?

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My only friend died April 19 2019. I cried a little. She was old as my mom. She was my second mom.

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I don’t have friends in real life, except for one person I met while inpatient back in 1993. We live about two and a half hours apart now, so we don’t see each other, but we keep in touch by e-mail.

I spent almost the last five years on disability and isolating due to my sza, so I never made friends in the city I moved to in 2012. Since starting my volunteer job, I met three acquaintances that I’ll stay in touch with after I leave when I get a full-time job, but I don’t invest energy in maintaining actual friendships outside of work situations. I am close to my husband, mom, and sister and that is enough for me.

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Spain! 15151515

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I have maybe 3 friends that I hardly see ever. Only talk by email. They don’t know about this illness I have. It’s terrible when you live in a large city like I do, where you see tons of people hanging out.

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I have 1 friend.