How do you make new friends when you have bi-polar disorder? I've tried to in the past, but I usually end up not caring anymore and neglect them. Other times, I'll be overbearing and they'll get sick of me. There's no in between. The friends I did have eventually trickled down to "blue moon friends" (meaning they only think it's good to stay in touch once in a great while). So, when I meet somebody new I find it better to spare them the year or two of pain being my friend and just let them move on. It saves me embarrassment in the end, and calms the feelings of rejection inside me.
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My bipolar disorder has kept me from having friends
for my whole life. Even now I have no best nor close
friends, just guys I know from my Biker Church that
I only see and talk to at the church. I am way to
moody for close friends but I have grown used to it.
If you let people/friends move in on you, then they
take over and use you bipolar against you is my
experience. No one at my Biker Church knows that
I am bipolar..........it's best that way.
for my whole life. Even now I have no best nor close
friends, just guys I know from my Biker Church that
I only see and talk to at the church. I am way to
moody for close friends but I have grown used to it.
If you let people/friends move in on you, then they
take over and use you bipolar against you is my
experience. No one at my Biker Church knows that
I am bipolar..........it's best that way.
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