Is my friend lying about having mental disorders?
my friend claims to have all these mental illnesses such as (depression, social anxiety, insomnia, bipolar etc.) she says she has tried to commit suicide many times (which I know is a lie) and that she has dealt with these thing her whole life. however, when in situations that would not be comfortable for a person with these things, she is perfectly fine. I personally do not believe she has these things, and she has just recently started claiming to have them all. She is always saying that she doesn t want people s pity, yet on social media, she is constantly posting things like "I wish I could kms" "insomnia sucks" "I found I have another anxiety disorder" "being bipolar is the worst" and things like that. If she doesnt want pity then why is she insisting on everybody knowing she has these things?! Sometimes at school she won t even talk or open her mouth bc of her "bipolar personality" but when somebody who isn in our friend group talks to her she is all smiles and acts like nothing is wrong. I don t know what to believe and I wanted a second opinion on this. And also, we are fangirls and most fangirls say they have similar illnesses so that may play part in this.
My friend is leaving me because of my mental illness?
I m not sure what s wrong with me exactly, I know that I have depression for sure, and I ve only just started therapy. But anyway, I confessed to my friend that I have also experienced hallucinations. I told them this before I started therapy, because I just HAD to tell somebody, and I thought that I could trust them. Now I feel bad for telling them. They have enough of their own problems to deal with, let alone mine. Ever since I talked about it, they ve been seeing me less and less, avoiding me. I should have just kept it to myself. They re still nice to me and everything, but I can definitely feel the new, cold distance from them. I feel like I kind of deserve it because I shouldn t have told them. Do you have any advice to offer? Thank you....
Do you think Phoebe Buffay (from Friends) has a mental disorder?
She seems to be a little cooky or off, so I was just wonder what other people thought. Also, what kind of disorder do you think she might have? I personally think she may have some sort of personality disorder. Let me know what you think! Thanks!
What kind of mental illness does my former friend have?
One of my former friends from high school possibly has a mental illness. She doesn't have very many friends and she can't drive or work. She never told me this, but one of my teachers from high school told me she has a lot of emotional problems and was taking pills prescribed by the doctor. For example, if you didn't want to be her friend anymore, she would be in tears in a heartbeat. She's a very sensitive person. I could tell she looks like she's very nervous all the time and is shaking. She dresses really weird and gets close to someone immediately when she first meets that person. One time, she hit on my friend's boyfriend right in front of her although she knew he was taken. Her parents got married very young and had her right away. They divorced when she was three years old. Her mother has been married and divorced three times. Plus she's had many boyfriends. My former friend has had lots and lots of boyfriends and they didn't last. Her father is a very big alcoholic. Also, when she did used to work different jobs, she always would get fired. A lot of people I've talked to told me they don't like her and that she's a very strange person. She's trying to be my friend again, but I don't want to. Every time I see her in person, she always has a very sad look on her face and I could tell her feelings are hurt. Other times when I see her, she always looks mad at me. Even when a guy breaks it off with her, she cries right away.
How can I explain my mental state to my friends?
I can understand where you're coming from. I myself have Bipolar disorder and I'm anti-social because of it. However, if your friends don't know about your condition they really can't help being insensitive. When I started dealing with being Bipolar, I had a one-on-one chat with my closest friends. This made them understand where I was coming from. Since there wasn't a group of people around, there was no crowd pressure to make fun or laugh about my problem. If they are truly your friends, they'll understand or at least try too. My family has taken this in stride and my sister has done her best to help me when I'm in one mood or another. It's possible that your sister really doesn't understand what depression is like. My sister didn't understand my low moods until I described it as best I could. I'd have a heart to heart with her and really tell her how you feel. She might be uncomfortable with the situation because she doesn't understand it. There is still a certain stigma that goes along with mental illness, but part of ending that stigma is to be open about what you feel and how you feel it. You should be proud of how far you've come. I'm proud of myself for getting as far as I have with Bipolar. I have to manage mine with therapy and medications, but if you can avoid medications then that's to be commended.
Having a best friend with a mental illness?
My best friend Erin is really important to me. Though sometimes it's really hard to deal with her. She has depression and bipolar and being her best friend can be a tough job. It always seems like she is always needing my advice or needing comfort. I'm happy to help her out but whenever I need someone there for me it's like she isn't available. She also gets mad VERY easily, it's like I have to walk on egg shells and filter every single thing I say so she doesn't get mad or upset. She sometimes can be kind of rude by telling me things like being quiet or telling me to stop. It's not really what she says it's how she says it. She also kind of makes me do things for her but when she asks me it's in a snippy tone. It's getting harder to deal with this friendship but I love her so very much. When we are having fun and laughing we have the BEST time. It's just hard having to monitor everything I do and say, it causes a lot of stress. I can't talk to her about it because it will be a huge blown out fight and I don't want to end it because I know it's her bipolar and depression not really her. Does anyone have a friendship like that? Or are there any ways to help cope?
My friend keeps on self-diagnosing herself with mental illness, it looks like she WANTS to have it.?
Okay, don't be fooled by the titled. Nobody WANTS to have mental illness. Sometimes some people just like to romanticize them (which annoys me). I have a best friend. She's 18. I'm 15. So I'm diagnosed with anxiety disorder, panic disorder, bipolar disorder, delusional disorder & paranoid personality disorder along with mild OCD. These are all not self-diagnosed. I've been having these illnesses for 4 whole years and it has never gotten better, and had gotten much worse. I have a history of anorexia, depression and self harm but I'm recovered. So I have a best friend, don't get me wrong, I love her, we've been friends for 6 years now and I understand her and trust her. But lately, yeah she's been sad over things and vulnerable. When I first told her I self-harmed, she got mad that I was self-harming and she threatened to start self-harming herself if I didn't stop. As the road goes on, she started to self-harm (not by cutting, I cut in the past). She self-harmed by punching the walls till she's bruised. This was because she was frustrated about love, that no boy ever wants her. Lately she's been saying that she has anxiety disorder, OCD, paranoid disorder, just like me. This is just because something happened which was only like a week old and she immediately self-diagnosed herself. She starts to tell people that it's hard to live with multiple mental illnesses and she says to me that OCD people has a high chance of suicide. Idk, what should I advice her?