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<blockquote data-quote="susiestar" data-source="post: 698865" data-attributes="member: 1233"><p>I have lost friends in similarly odd ways. I had a good friend that I did a lot with. She was friends with my mother too, as she was the wife of someone my mom worked with. She got really strange about the time that Wiz did the final meltdown. She was a good friend until then, even through his hospital stay. I think her bad marriage was adding to her mental health issues and she started to see everyone but her parents and one other person as enemies. She became very paranoid and I got really scared about her lack of firearm safety. I grew up with guns and like them as a hobby. But I know myself and I won't have one in my house. When the migraines are really bad I would be very tempted to use one on myself. I also had a violent child who was firearm obsessed. </p><p></p><p>Seeing her raising two boys (one who is a Difficult Child) with firearms that have no trigger locks and are not kept locked up scared me. I had to limit her exposure to my kids and that upset her. But with a loaded gun in her purse and another with a clip next to it in her car, I felt she was unsafe. She constantly thought that random men on the street or in stores were 'out to get her' or were 'going to rape her'. It was too much for me, esp when combined with her hoarder tendencies. She told strange lies, and her perceptions of reality were very far from reality. </p><p></p><p>She eventually came to the delusion that I was trying to set her up to be raped and killed, and nothing anyone could say could impact her delusion. I have no idea what gave her that idea as at the time I was helping her tile the home she was building. The friendship ended abruptly and I never did find out why, though another friend of hers did say that it was more about her delusions than about anything I had done or not done. She had mentioned that she thought my mother's depression issues might be somehow contagious. My mother was more like a grandmother to her children and it hurt my mother enormously to be cut out of their lives with no warning or reason. I do know she had a huge custody battle because she tried to do the same thing to her husband. She was convinced that he was going to run to India with her boys (he is from India and his family is still there) and regardless of the assurances that both he and the court gave her, she tried to hide the kids from him on several occasions. </p><p></p><p>People can be strange and sometimes they do things that make absolutely no sense to me. I hope that in time your friend finds some peace and she can be more honest with you and likely with herself. I am sorry you have been hurt this way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="susiestar, post: 698865, member: 1233"] I have lost friends in similarly odd ways. I had a good friend that I did a lot with. She was friends with my mother too, as she was the wife of someone my mom worked with. She got really strange about the time that Wiz did the final meltdown. She was a good friend until then, even through his hospital stay. I think her bad marriage was adding to her mental health issues and she started to see everyone but her parents and one other person as enemies. She became very paranoid and I got really scared about her lack of firearm safety. I grew up with guns and like them as a hobby. But I know myself and I won't have one in my house. When the migraines are really bad I would be very tempted to use one on myself. I also had a violent child who was firearm obsessed. Seeing her raising two boys (one who is a Difficult Child) with firearms that have no trigger locks and are not kept locked up scared me. I had to limit her exposure to my kids and that upset her. But with a loaded gun in her purse and another with a clip next to it in her car, I felt she was unsafe. She constantly thought that random men on the street or in stores were 'out to get her' or were 'going to rape her'. It was too much for me, esp when combined with her hoarder tendencies. She told strange lies, and her perceptions of reality were very far from reality. She eventually came to the delusion that I was trying to set her up to be raped and killed, and nothing anyone could say could impact her delusion. I have no idea what gave her that idea as at the time I was helping her tile the home she was building. The friendship ended abruptly and I never did find out why, though another friend of hers did say that it was more about her delusions than about anything I had done or not done. She had mentioned that she thought my mother's depression issues might be somehow contagious. My mother was more like a grandmother to her children and it hurt my mother enormously to be cut out of their lives with no warning or reason. I do know she had a huge custody battle because she tried to do the same thing to her husband. She was convinced that he was going to run to India with her boys (he is from India and his family is still there) and regardless of the assurances that both he and the court gave her, she tried to hide the kids from him on several occasions. People can be strange and sometimes they do things that make absolutely no sense to me. I hope that in time your friend finds some peace and she can be more honest with you and likely with herself. I am sorry you have been hurt this way. [/QUOTE]
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