How many true friends do you have who aren't merely fair-weather friends?

[deletednumber]

I have noone

 

[onleana]

none

 

[Insomniac]

no friend but many dependable cousins and uncles/aunts.

 

[noname223]

I have 3 close friends. One of them gets triggered when I am too explicit about depression and suicide. This is why I don't tell him everything. He had both in the past too. Then I have some friends who are not that close.
I wish I had a partner then my social life would be way better. But at least I have some friends

 

[TakeMeBack07]

people are too afraid to be honest and open about their problems, for whatever reason that may be. as a guy, you'd end up feeling emasculated after the tough period you've been through UNLESS the person is relatable to you and reciprocates. otherwise, you'll end up in the trash. happy people don't want to be around sadness and misery you feel so i ended up feeling alienated from most people and a little resentment to some.
toxic masculinity is a bitch and a huge annoyance to be around as well.

 

[Marktheghost]

0

 

[onlyanimalsaregood]

The only friend I have is four legged. My cat, Sweet Pea. She loves me unconditionally. I don't have to look a certain way or act a certain way. She accepts me and my PTSD, anxiety and depressioin. Had I known how great animals were years ago, I would have never gotten "married" or even thought about having friends. As soon as you tell someone you suffer with depression, they look at you as if you come from another planet and that's pretty much the last you'll see of them. So, zero human friends, one great, true friend.

Animals are truly amazing They are so pure. The love of my life is my cat who has been with me for almost 15 years. True friends, on the other hand, can be counted on the fingers and are truly seen in bad times.

 

[Mtnwildflowers]

Once you're depressed long enough they all leave. They can't handle how "heavy" everything is about you. It brings people down too much. I had two best friends for 12 years and now they barely speak to me if at all. They had kids and moved on. I'm too much for them

 

[𝐒𝐚𝐤𝐮 ☆]

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[Dr Iron Arc]

I've got a few but they all kind of hate each other for different reasons which is hilarious because everything they hate about each other applies to me tenfold and yet they all still choose to be friends with me well if they're going to waste their empathy on someone as cruel as me I might as well reward them with more cruelty.

 

[710]

I've always been an introverted loner. On most days, I have no contact whatsoever with other people. Sometimes I get lonely, but I can't do anything about it because I have zero social skills.

 

[OpheliasFlowers]

Once you're depressed long enough they all leave. They can't handle how "heavy" everything is about you. It brings people down too much. I had two best friends for 12 years and now they barely speak to me if at all. They had kids and moved on. I'm too much for them

EXACTLY this. I had a few 'friends' who I genuinely believed cared about me but 'my issues' got too much for them to want to deal with...i.e. while I gladly would listen to them go on and on and on about their problems, they never had the time nor interest or concern to reciprocate when I desperately just wanted to talk a bit. And i knew NOT to overwhelm them wth my stuff - yet they still felt it was all too "negative" and they became distant and finally disappeared from my life altogether. That's how people are.

I'm sorry the same kind of thing happened to you, too. It isn't right. But obviously your friends and mine were never actual friends to begin with. :(
0.

 

[Manaaja]

No idea. Somewhere between 0 and ∞.