- Date posted
- 1y
Rocd about my best friend- help?
Please can someone help, I have realised that I am having Rocd about my best friend. I have experienced it with my boyfriend for a few years, and for the most part, it doesnāt bother me so much anymore, but I seem to be really agonising over my best friend at the moment and trying to figure out if we have drifted, if she still considers me a best friend, if our friendship will ever feel back to normal etc⦠basically worrying I am going to lose my most valued friendship! Some context is that she has two very young children, and we have both had a lot of difficult family circumstances this year- which have led to us both feeling a bit out of sorts, and of course since sheās had children her main focus has switched. Weāve managed to maintain a great, very close friendship for 12 years even though we live a few hours away from each other, and prior to recently, I have always felt so secure and at ease with her. These recent obsessions about the friendship have made me feel so disconnected from her, my brain is making me feel like I donāt know her, like sheās a stranger when weāre together, and I have been feeling so anxious around her that I have started to avoid it because I donāt know what to say anymore. I have felt distant and disconnected and lonely with a lot of friends this year , like I have no true connections⦠but itās making me feel particularly bad about this friend because I value her friendship more than anything else in the world. I have experienced this feeling with my boyfriend in the past when I convinced myself that he was going to leave me, but I managed to get over it. I am finding this friendship theme really difficult to get over because I donāt see her regularly to enable me to do erp, and I donāt want to be clingy by messaging her all the time. Can anyone advise a way of getting over this theme or a way of doing ERP even though we live far away from each other? Iād love to hear from anyone who has experienced the same thing and got over it. I feel desperate to not lose this friendship and I pray that itās just my brain playing tricks on me.