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Re: Losing friends... this really sucks :(

Postby brandic » Sun Sep 11, 2011 9:23 pm

I just realized I never replied to your responses! Sorry! (talk about being spacey sometimes...)

So one of the friends finally did respond to me, so make that one friend that I think I'm losing. And sadly this friend is someone who was more than just an acquaintance. I consider her one of my most trusted friends. She moved to another city maybe like two years ago. The first year we kept in contact pretty regularly (talking, texting, etc) but then she's been really distant that past year. I told her about the DID diagnosis a few months ago, and that's when she started acting all weird. The thing is, I thought she'd be the last person on earth to care, or to judge me, but... it's hard to chalk it up to coincidence. Ya know?? Maybe it is purely her own stuff, but it's hard not to let it affect me, or take it personally...

So having her sever ties - which is what it feels like she is doing - without any explanation or reason is just really painful as well as very triggering. At this point I'm just trying not to think about it... :(
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Re: Losing friends... this really sucks :(

Postby bourbon » Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:05 pm

Hi Brandic

Bourbon is on tender hooks at the moment. She coughed up to her best friend about having this disorder and she is yet to get a reply to her email. She trusts this friend a lot and I just really really really hope it is a matter of being too busy rather than a how-the-hell-do-i-deal-with-this... otherwise we're in for trouble. More trouble.

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Re: Losing friends... this really sucks :(

Postby RavenMoon » Sun Sep 11, 2011 10:17 pm

Hello everyone I know I'm new here I hope you don't mind me just jumping. I can't really say how long I've know I have DID because me personally I've always been comfortable with the others that reside here with me although parts of the system do not do well with each other.

The first person I told was my husband. This caused a little bit of drama overall amongst the others because they didn't want anyone to know for fear they would run away. Luckily he said he has always known different actions, different attitudes and I had a habit of liking something one minute and hating it later but nothing has changed between us which is a blessing.

My co-host Talia however decided last week that she was going to blurt it out to our best friend. To explain how close we are this person was my maid of honor when we got married and she didn't take it to well in fact she has hardly said two words to me since I told her.

I have trouble making friends over all because Talia and I may like the person but the others have a problem with them so I hate loosing friends it hurts especially someone who has been such a prominent figure in my life. I keep hoping it will work it's self out but I'm not sure that it will.
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Re: Losing friends... this really sucks :(

Postby bourbon » Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:26 am

eek - I'm so sorry RaveMoon

This thread is making me nervous!!

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Re: Losing friends... this really sucks :(

Postby tomboy24 » Mon Sep 12, 2011 9:27 pm

I'm very sorry the other friend seems to be cutting ties. I know how painful it can be, especially when it doesn't seem to be coincidence. *hugs if wanted* I'd treat this like depression. Just take one day at a time, try to focus on the good things, and love the contact you're keeping with the other friend. Remember that people on here care about you and are here for you. I'm sorry you have to go through this and wish I could do more to help. Sometimes we just have to cope with the course life takes. Stay strong and hang in there. *more hugs if wanted*
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Re: Losing friends... this really sucks :(

Postby LinaeveWorkman » Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:43 pm

brandic wrote:Does anyone else ever feel extreme loneliness overtake them? Like everyone who ever cares just ends up leaving? Cause that's how I'm feeling right now. And it's making me really sad. I have two friends both of which I consider to be my closest friends who have totally pulled away. For seemingly no apparent reason. Won't return calls, won't answer texts, won't respond to emails. These two friends don't know each other but they both happen to be pulling away at the same time. Why is it that I can't maintain close friendships...? I can't imagine anything I did to push them away... I really do think I'm an easy person to be friends with and don't expect a lot from them. And yet here we go again - close friends not wanting to be friends anymore for reasons I can't explain and they won't even bother giving me any sort of explanation. My partner says its not me it's them, and that it's their loss, but after this happens over and over and over again it's truly hard not to take it personally and wonder what the heck I am doing wrong... Why do I bother even trying to make and keep friends when this sort of thing happens.

I apologize for the depressing post of self-pity. I'm just feeling sad and lonely and wasn't really sure where else to turn.


I'm sorry you are going through this, hon. -hugs if you want them-

I understand what you are going through and how much it hurts. I had a whole group of very close individuals, which we did many things together and rarely did things seperate. Since my break down in January, and my diagnosis of DID (which I told them to help them understand...it did the opposite), they have gradually went from including me in outings, to completely forgetting I exist. We were planning a really nice community gathering as a group, and I was supposed to be the RP, and at first everything was great. Then, one of my friends started taking over for me, and I faded away. No matter how hard I struggled, they are lost to me now.

So I understand the pain and loneliness you're going through, and I'm deeply sorry you are experiencing it. Good, supportive friends are hard to find in this day and age.... Though I can say you always have this forum, sometimes that simply isn't enough. We all crave the actual interaction on a more physical/emotional/spiritual (in a way) level....and being an anonomys face and name online isn't always the best.

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Re: Losing friends... this really sucks :(

Postby singer » Thu Sep 15, 2011 10:57 pm

I have lost many friends too. Some because they freaked out and left, some because I started to integrate and suddenly feel like a different person with higher standards and different opinions, and we no longer had anything in common, just became 'acquaintances'. And my whole life I have had people pulling away with me having no clue why. It is very lonely, but I have to say the people who I find as friends now who stick with me are definitely keepers:)
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Re: Losing friends... this really sucks :(

Postby Una+ » Thu Sep 15, 2011 11:23 pm

Singer, welcome. Like you, in the last few months I have begun integrating alters and I am finding myself re-assessing all my relationships. Some major shocks there, let me tell you! Some old friends and acquaintances I disclosed to have grown closer to me. Then there are people I disclosed to, thinking they would understand, who did not understand and pulled away. It may sound cold to say this but, frankly, good riddance to them. In particular I see some of my own family in a very new light, and what I see is not good. Accepting that I have DID means accepting that horrible things happened in my childhood that I do not remember (yet), years before the horrible things that I do remember. Who did what to me? I am turning over stones and finding some nasty stuff.
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