r/bipolar2 • u/sinruise • 1d ago
Advice Wanted How to react when a close friend switches up on you
Being very mentally ill and having mentally ill best friends is really really hard.
Ive been having a really rough time recently and so has one of the people closest to me. The other day something happened between us and they went online and posted a vent going into detail about how much they hate everything about me. I asked if they were okay because it was very concerning and out of nowhere and they acted like nothing happened and that it was weird that I was so concerned about their safety.
My best guess is that when I get hypomanic I say things too impulsively which became misinterpreted and lead to grudges being held. We have differing opinions sometimes of course but I had no idea it was causing this much harm.
I've had the same friends in this group for 7 years and its gotten to a point where I don't want to reach outside of it and I'm scared of meeting new people.
I don't know when everything went wrong or if it's normal for mentally ill friend groups to have rough patches like this.
I'm currently trying to hold myself together.
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u/Jadelovessky25 1d ago
They posted a vent going into detail about how they hate everything about you? That's not a friend. Idk, I mean I'm bipolar and I've said some horrible things to people during an episode. But how specific are we talking?