Friend Advice on Sidechat | It sucks but when a friend’s mental health problems are severely triggering my own I know it’s time to distance myself. We may be able to be close when they’re farther in their healing journey but where they’re at right now isn’t good for my health.

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Friend Advice 5w

It sucks but when a friend’s mental health problems are severely triggering my own I know it’s time to distance myself. We may be able to be close when they’re farther in their healing journey but where they’re at right now isn’t good for my health.

Anonymous 5w

this doesn’t suck. ive had a friend like this and distancing myself was the only thing i could do to be able to save our friendship. you aren’t their therapist and even though it’s always nice to listen to your friends if it’s starting to have an effect on you that’s when you have to step back and they should understand. no good friend wants their mental health to trigger someone else they care about.

Anonymous

#1 5w

The problem is I don’t think they will. They have a lot of issues with relationships bc of trauma & take distance as abandonment. I wouldn’t even know how to explain it to them bc when I talked to them before my words got twisted into the worst possible interpretations. I don’t think it was what I said bc when I repeated it to others they knew what I meant. But the way they reacted when I saw them later really hurt me and I’m scared to even talk about it cus I don’t know how they’ll react.