Most important person in my life doesn't want to talk to me.

BillyBatson

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My best friend and i have been on rocky ground lately due to a lot of stuff. We had a talk where she lectured me for 3 hours about the way i have been and decisions i have recently made. She asked me to seek counceling. That was 3 weeks ago and i wrote her an email 2 nights ago about a lot of stuff that has been going on since then and responded to some of the stufff she has told me.
Tonight she calls me up to talk about stuff and it did not go well. She's upset at me, thinks i need help, says she has less respect for me now and doesn't know who i am anymore and the person i am she can't be friends with. Said that she can't stand around and see me like this anymore so she doesn't want to talk to me anymore. She said if i seek help, get better, less depressed, get a job, do well in school, fix my relationship with my mom and sis, and perhaps stop dating the person i have been, then maybe down the line we could be friends again. i did cry. I don't see where she is coming from. 2 hours on the phone and we hung up. Told me she wouldn't delete me from myspace and i know where to find her (though she has removed me from her top 8, use to be #3). She told me she loves me and only wants to see me better.

I have never been so depressed in my life.
i'm not here asking for sympathy, i just don't know who else to talk to she is the one i would normally go to to talk or for comfort and advice.

-cliffs-

-best friend and i have been on rocky ground
-talked to me 3 weeks ago about how she thinks i need to see help
-she thinks i am depressed and hates it
-dislikes who i am dating and would like me to stop seeing them
-told me we shouldn't talk anymore
-if i see help, fix things with fam, job, school, and stop dating who i am, we might be able to be friends down the line
-me=more depressed than ever

-=update 2/15/07=-
I started seeing a psychologist through school yesterday. next appointment is for next wednesday. things have actually gotten worse with everything as of today. she said i might have to be on antidepresents.
 

Balt

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Sounds like she was giving you good advice. Maybe it wouldn't hurt to talk to a professional.
 
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heh some friend

im sorry but best friends are best friends no matter what. hell if i thought my buddies were going down the pan with some daft decisions i'd try my best to help bail them out. i wouldnt help them and then say ahh ****** it i dont wanna know anymore, at the least i'd let them get on with it if theyre not willing to take advice, but i wouldnt shut them off completely by not talking.

she might be right about getting help, but the rest of it just sounds like she's trying to make you who she wants you to be.

oh yeah myspace is for chumps.
 

giantpinkbunnyhead

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do YOU think she's right? Drop your defenses and take a look at yourself. If you need to clean yourself up, you should do it... not just for her but more importantly for yourself.

Everything will fall into place if you do that.
 

dug777

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i don't really know what to say...it amazes me what complicated and melodramatic lives some of you kids lead ;)
 

BillyBatson

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Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
heh some friend

im sorry but best friends are best friends no matter what. hell if i thought my buddies were going down the pan with some daft decisions i'd try my best to help bail them out. i wouldnt help them and then say ahh ****** it i dont wanna know anymore, at the least i'd let them get on with it if theyre not willing to take advice, but i wouldnt shut them off completely by not talking.

she might be right about getting help, but the rest of it just sounds like she's trying to make you who she wants you to be.

oh yeah myspace is for chumps.

yeah i never said i don't have issues and that i don't need to speak with someone. i don't rememebr if i said it in the OP but i had already thoguht abotu ti and when we spoke 3 weeks ago i decided to and i told her that. i did tell her the same thing that how is a friend just going to walk away and not be there when i need them that i was there for her and the one time i walked away from our friendship was because it was affecting me and i did it for me and that i wasn't affecting her negatively in anyway. i also said that too that how is she going to ask me to leave and get better and change all this about me and then come back to be her friend that i can't do that and if i did i would always recent her for not being there when i needed her and was there when it was more convenient and i had no issues. She isn't a dumb girl at ALL though and i respect her so very much. Anyone else i would say fvck u then and move on but no she isn;t dumb i just don't understand where it came from or why. i think she could have tried harder even if somethign was affecting her which nothing is

 

BillyBatson

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Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
do YOU think she's right? Drop your defenses and take a look at yourself. If you need to clean yourself up, you should do it... not just for her but more importantly for yourself.

Everything will fall into place if you do that.

oh no she is right about certain things but not everything. yes the job/debt i need to work on, school i just started but not giving up. depressed though? about my debt but not much else and i def don't sit around and mope about stuff i go out, i go to school, i have friends, etc. my mom and sis well we have not been good recently but it all has to do with who i am dating and i think a lot of what she is baseing her decision on iis also based on who i am seeing.

i am going to see someone cuz even if it doesn't help it won't do any harm, but none of the issues i have should have affected the relationship her and i had. i just don't get it
 

AgaBoogaBoo

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Are you still seeing the person you are out of spite maybe? A lot of times in situations like this, you might think you're doing what you feel is right, but it'll end up being simply because you don't want to listen to all the people warning you in advance. If your mom, sister, and friend are all feeling so strongly about this, maybe they're right?
 

BillyBatson

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Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Are you still seeing the person you are out of spite maybe? A lot of times in situations like this, you might think you're doing what you feel is right, but it'll end up being simply because you don't want to listen to all the people warning you in advance. If your mom, sister, and friend are all feeling so strongly about this, maybe they're right?

the person isn't perfect but no it isn't out of spite. and some of their reasoning it just um unreasonable. for instance this best friend of mine has only met her once and nothing bad happened, but it is other stuff she has heard about her and the fact that i have been hurt by her
 

cherrytwist

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cliffs:

female friend isn't getting attention she needs
she's decided to move on
OP is upset and confused because she's attempting to manipulate him and he doesn't see through it
 

hjo3

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Why did she tell you to seek counciling? Are you on drugs? Cutting yourself? Attempting suicide? Most people don't recommend psychiatric help lightly.
 

AStar617

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Originally posted by: BillyBatson
Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
do YOU think she's right? Drop your defenses and take a look at yourself. If you need to clean yourself up, you should do it... not just for her but more importantly for yourself.

Everything will fall into place if you do that.

oh no she is right about certain things but not everything. yes the job/debt i need to work on, school i just started but not giving up. depressed though? about my debt but not much else and i def don't sit around and mope about stuff i go out, i go to school, i have friends, etc. my mom and sis well we have not been good recently but it all has to do with who i am dating and i think a lot of what she is baseing her decision on iis also based on who i am seeing.

i am going to see someone cuz even if it doesn't help it won't do any harm, but none of the issues i have should have affected the relationship her and i had. i just don't get it

If she ends up with the thankless task of having to be your emotional shock absorber, it can definitely affect your relationship with her. Having been in that position before with a friend who tried to hurt himself at least twice, I can definitely say you have no idea how this wears on others around you, regardless of how good your/their intentions are. Even peripheral involvement can place a huge burden on some people.

Originally posted by: hjo3
Why did she tell you to seek counciling? Are you on drugs? Cutting yourself? Attempting suicide? Most people don't recommend psychiatric help lightly.
QFT. And BTW, put into context with the rest of your recent threads, I'd agree that you should get some help too. Well done on realizing this yourself, now to see if you actually do follow through.
 

Spineshank

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Originally posted by: BillyBatson

Told me she wouldn't delete me from myspace and i know where to find her (though she has removed me from her top 8, use to be #3).

LMAO
 

dfuze

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She obviously knows you very well. She also knows more than what you wrote to us in about 2 paragraphs. I would take her suggestion and talk to somebody professional. I would normally say talk to a friend because they can usually do a pretty good job, but obviously it has progressed past that point. I wouldn't blame her for cutting off contact (although my guess it's more of a way to try to entice you to counseling) because it is probably hard for her to see you this way.
 

Kirby

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If she was such a great friend, I would really try to take her advice. I know none of my best friends would try to screw me over and that their criticism is always constructive. But thats my friends, so take it with a grain of salt.
 

jemcam

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Obviously I don't know the whole story but this part jumped out at me:

perhaps stop dating the person i have been

Either she is a very good friend by giving sound advice and is not enabling you to continue with your problems by turning her back on you to get you to wake up and do something OR she is extremely shallow and is not worth having as a friend.

You have to make that determination.
 

MrChad

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Originally posted by: jemcam
Obviously I don't know the whole story but this part jumped out at me:

perhaps stop dating the person i have been

Either she is a very good friend by giving sound advice and is not enabling you to continue with your problems by turning her back on you to get you to wake up and do something OR she is extremely shallow and is not worth having as a friend.

You have to make that determination.

The OP's current dating situation seems like a bit of a train wreck.
 

pontifex

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Originally posted by: BillyBatson
Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
heh some friend

im sorry but best friends are best friends no matter what. hell if i thought my buddies were going down the pan with some daft decisions i'd try my best to help bail them out. i wouldnt help them and then say ahh ****** it i dont wanna know anymore, at the least i'd let them get on with it if theyre not willing to take advice, but i wouldnt shut them off completely by not talking.

she might be right about getting help, but the rest of it just sounds like she's trying to make you who she wants you to be.

oh yeah myspace is for chumps.

yeah i never said i don't have issues and that i don't need to speak with someone. i don't rememebr if i said it in the OP but i had already thoguht abotu ti and when we spoke 3 weeks ago i decided to and i told her that. i did tell her the same thing that how is a friend just going to walk away and not be there when i need them that i was there for her and the one time i walked away from our friendship was because it was affecting me and i did it for me and that i wasn't affecting her negatively in anyway. i also said that too that how is she going to ask me to leave and get better and change all this about me and then come back to be her friend that i can't do that and if i did i would always recent her for not being there when i needed her and was there when it was more convenient and i had no issues. She isn't a dumb girl at ALL though and i respect her so very much. Anyone else i would say fvck u then and move on but no she isn;t dumb i just don't understand where it came from or why. i think she could have tried harder even if somethign was affecting her which nothing is

sounds like maybe she likes you more than a friend and is jealous of your gf? why woul she hate your gf?