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- 3y
Is this manipulative? Or is something up?
Hi. This isn't me asking for reassurance, I don't have obsessions that are about me being abused and whatnot, I'm just looking for a second opinion because for some reason the friendship between me and my friend doesn't seem to be working ever. I have a friend I've known for a couple years, and in the past 1/2 years we've both been dealing with really bad mental health, I think I developed ocd, and they think they have a personality disorder. In Jan 2021, after we both had a terrible flare up of our suspected disorders, they texted that they felt so alone and uncared for in our friendship group, and that no one cares. Arguably I was ruminating for 8/9 hours a day, and payed little attention to them the first few weeks they were displaying bad mental health. I started to text them quite worried, maybe once a day for a couple days? Then they sent me the paragraph. We made up, but that theme of them thinking no on cares, or feels unloved keeps happening and I feel like I'm a terrible friend. I have bad anxiety, and obsessions about being "self centered" around them, or ablelist, or immortal etc. My anxiety has kinda led to me neglecting them? I don't text them often, and only really speak to them in real life; I check up infrequently; and sometimes they sit down at lunch and don't speak while the rest of the group do, and I don't talk to them when they do that, I just freeze and physically can't. Because I have nothing to talk about? It'll be boring, or they'll just snap at me, or they're doing it because they're mad at me, or they won't reply. I feel like it won't help, and they've continuously said they feel uncared for, and we've talked about it, but it keeps happening because of my anxiety. They feel like everything they do is wrong, and I feel guilty. They liked this post that talks about "breadcruming"? About three years ago, at the beginning of our friendship, they "bullied" me for about a year. It was basically non-stop teasing about whatever joke I made about myself, and my supposed gayness, or literally anything. Apparently it was them taking out their own problems onto me. They half forced me to come out, and gave me crappy self esteem issues that led me to self-harm. I think a part of our problem, is they keep reminding me of what they used to do. There always seems to be little issues why are there petty arguments constantly? I confronted them about a thing they purposely say to piss me off, and they ignored it. They go from two extremes, and I understand that they can't take confrontation. But because they don't respond, I bottle it up and snap. I said, "well maybe I'm always mad at you I just don't say it." Which is extremely triggering for them and I regret it so much. They blocked me twice, for a few days and then a week, and don't speak to me at school. I can't deal with blocking, my anxiety is horrible, we're in the middle of doing our gsces, my OCD is bad, so I messaged them on this other app basically telling them to talk to me cause I can't handle it. They explained I make them feel high maintenance, once they said something out of the blue that was overwhelming to deal with right before a math test, and I was too caught up on that that I forgot to text them to check up on the about it? That was awful to do, and I'm glad they mentioned it to me. I kept telling them not to trauma dump, and didn't talk to them about that they had trauma dumped about? I do care about them, and I meant it in no horrible way, and I'll stop. A few years ago, after they guilttripped me into telling them my crush, they literally told my crush and this other girl about it. Whom told apparently her whole friendship group. One girl slipped, and everyone kept it a secret about which one of my two friends it was that slipped. I never figured it out, cause they lied to me. They told me a year ago that my actual crush knowed, so I've been having to deal with the second wave of anxiety with being around her. I'm a lesbian, and I feel like I'm a fucking predator because of it? Anyway the point was they're upset at me for making them feel guilty, they argued that it happened when we were young, and I did things to upset them yet they don't mention it. It just feels like I am always the problem, how did I become the problem in this situation? I don't even mention it a lot, I don't think?? And now I can't mention any of the behaviours they're doing that upset me, since I'm bringing up the past, and I end up being the dick for snapping. I did mention it, so I stop snapping and upsetting them, and they didn't reply to the text. At the end of the long text they sent, they said they didn't want to say this and they don't want to get their feelings hurt by me saying, "they did worse," or "that didnt happen," and that. I felt weirdly suffocated and I couldn't respond in a way that that wasn't sorry. I don't know if this is true or not? But everyone else is always the asshole, it's never them?? Are they manipulative, even accidentally?? Or is everyone actually an asshole. Am I an asshole in making them feel uncared for? Can someone please respond or talk in DMS if that's a thing on this app, I really need a second opinion.