Posted by Justherself54 on February 29, 2008, at 7:18:40
In reply to Re: Lonely life...ya..VERY lonely » tepi, posted by Jay_Bravest_Face on February 29, 2008, at 3:40:49
You sure find out who your friends are when this kind of illness hits. I was a terrible self-isolator..didn't even answer the phone half the time..then started Nardil..I fortunately never had a friend tell me I was too depressing to be around but I had my common-law of 3 years leave me because "I was too emotionally high maintenance"!
Sometimes I think what happens when you're in a deep depression your friends don't know how to deal with it and are not educated about it. After I started feeling more social I started called some of my old friends and reconnecting. I explained what had happened to me and was surprised to hear they thought I was the one who didn't want to be friends anymore..that they didn't know what to do and just ended up leaving me alone, because that was what I was projecting..
I don't think we realize when we're in the depths of depression and so full of social anxiety that it may just be us that's pushing friends away because it's just too hard and exhausting to be around people.
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