• We are a multilingual website again. Read the notice about this.
  • Understand AI use at MyPTSD: all AI use is explained in our AI help page. AI use is by choice here. It exists if you want it, but does nothing unless you choose to use it.

I Texted My Friends After A Year

  • Post starter Post starter Deleted member 38644
  • Start date Start date
Status
Not open for further replies.
D

Deleted member 38644

I got in the mood to text my friends. I haven't talked to them since October/November of last year. I tend to drift in and out and I don't know why. I have a friend who is 20 about to graduate Nursing school. have you ever told your friends you have PTSD?
 
Yeah I kind of don't have friends anymore. I got unexpectedly pregnant for the first (and only) time four years ago and my friends slowly dried up after that. I haven't heard from my best friend in about a year and a half. It's tempting to think that it's my fault, since I have PTSD and have trouble maintaining connections to people, but really I think that my friends weren't very good people.

I think it's easier for me to be friends with self-centered people because I don't feel like they are prying into my personal business. So naturally, those people are not going to be there for me long term.

When I "came out" to some of them about one of the major things that happened to me that gave me PTSD they were like, that sucks, but I could tell they weren't really thinking about it and then they were like, back to me. But it was a relief. I didn't want to talk to them about it. I preferred to hear about their drunk shenanigans and poor life choices.
 
Yeah I kind of don't have friends anymore. I got unexpectedly pregnant for the first (and only) time...
It gets difficult at times. I drift in and out of everything. I be thinking everything is my fault if I haven't said this or that to them
 
It gets difficult at times. I drift in and out of everything. I be thinking everything is my faul...
Oh I do that too. And it'll follow me for years. I will be doing housework and think of a random conversation I had with people I talked to years ago and think, "Man, why did I say that..." I try to jerk myself out of it and refocus on what I was doing. I wish it just didn't happen at all.
 
I'd suggest spending time to reconnect with them for a few weeks/months and slowly test the waters in terms of telling them about PTSD.

I have told some friends and there are some I deeply regret telling, others I'm glad know.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Donation drives

2026 Donation Goal

Goal
$1,800.00
Earned
$910.00
This donation drive ends in
0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds
  50.6%

Trending content

Featured content

Back
Top Bottom