Cutting off Friends

[!WILL!]

Does anyone else just feel the impulsive urge to cut off all your friends? None of my friends are harmful to me and I know I'm extremely lucky to have them. I just feel like managing friendships has become exhausting at this point. I have to pretend to be happy and I don't think I've ever been honest with who I really am. Sometimes just being around people in general makes me suicidal. Someone could just be sitting in the same room as me not talking or even looking at me and I still feel like killing myself.I'm not exactly sure why, I guess sometimes it's a sensory overload.

 

[xLosthopex]

Yes, I've partly already done it

 

[WornOutLife]

Yes and that's why I did during the last 3 years.

My depression and bipolar disorder turned me into a lonely person. I even broke up with my ex gf because of it.

Still, I have one friend left. Well, I also have you all, who really understand the way I feel.

Hugs and love,

Matt

 

[GenesAndEnvironment]

Love the typo in the title "Cutting of Friends".

I also don't like having people around since I can get "thrown off" by it and it's an annoyance/distraction most of the time.

 

[FuneralCry]

I had friends when I was a teenager and I cut them all off. I just find people exhausting and I am naturally introverted. I sometimes felt like it was a burden keeping up with friends and I couldn't wait to isolate myself after seeing them.

 

[ExhaustedExistence]

They will probably do it instead of me, because I always talk about suicide and they are really sick of me.

 

[hahabye]

I only have a handful of close friends, but since I know I'll be gone in a few months, I am now slowly trying to cut them off as well. Partly in hopes to make it easier for them to deal with my death and partly because I cannot really handle social contact at this stage anymore.

 

[avoid_slow_death]

I have been isolating everyone in my life slowly and am just about at the point where there is no help left for me. Very little support in the real world and even if people try, I (mostly) reject it seeing as how me going on is just going to make me hurt more while I poison peoples lives around me like I always do. I really truly shouldn't be around or even talk to other people as I am not a good person to be in anyone's life. I will only bring you down and darken your heart and soul. I have done this to so many people and I really don't deserve any attention whatsoever. Unless its being told to keep my distance or go away.

 

[Bauhaus]

I feel it's a double-edged sword: on one hand you're anxious and exhausted and want to be left alone while on the other hand the loneliness is killing you (quite literally). :(
There's no solution for this dilemma.

 

[Boochky]

All my friends left me and my fiancee is cheating so I don't have this problem. :/

 

[Superdeterminist]

I did that. I don't bear any ill will toward any of them at all. I'm not even sure I can explain why I cut them off. It just felt impossible to relate to them because their lives were taking such a different direction to mine, I was not comfortable talking about myself to them. I couldn't just avoid the topic of "me", so I decided to just stop interacting with them. The extreme discomfort stopped as a result.

 

[avoid_slow_death]

I did that. I don't bear any ill will toward any of them at all. I'm not even sure I can explain why I cut them off. It just felt impossible to relate to them because their lives were taking such a different direction to mine, I was not comfortable talking about myself to them. I couldn't just avoid the topic of "me", so I decided to just stop interacting with them. The extreme discomfort stopped as a result.

Pretty much how I feel with the added layer of being a toxic individual.

 

[Silver]

I've cut off my friends. It's too much effort pretending I'm doing alright.

 

[Shotgunjohn]

yes. ive cut off a lot of people who i was close with so they wont feel as much pain when i ctb

 

[newave3]

 

[nopointofliving]

I do the same most often