- Date posted
- 48w
Really need some advice
This is not OCD related so it’s perfectly understandable if you don’t read this but I’m struggling so bad right now. I started secondary/ high school and my cousin was going to the same one but we never really connected and I have always felt uncomfortable around her. She’d always show off that she had so many friends and make me feel bad and just cross so many boundaries when I was always quiet and I began to kind of resent her because she always just acted so much better than me. 3 years later she joined my friend group with another girl and just like that they both became closer to all my friends in a couple of months than I had in years. I was unhappy because my friends started to actively look past me and not care that I was there. I was so so sad and cried like every night for the next 2 years, because I didn’t understand why they couldn’t just be friends with BOTH of us. Why did being friends with my cousin make them not care about me? My cousins friend had made someone else in my group feel really replaced too. All my confidence went and I got so awkward and sad around everyone except my parents and brother. A few years later they both got kicked out of the group because they had done some bad things and just like that my friends starting liking me again. After 4 years I finally felt happy in that group. But now we are going to the same university/college. I started earlier and I have had the best 4 days of my LIFE. All of a sudden I’m confident, not awkward, made more friends than I have in a lifetime. My cousin however moved in today and I already feel that all of it’s gone. I just spoke to my flatmate and I became my old self, all awkward and not able to make friends at all. Why is this happenign to me. Why did I only get the college experience for 4 days before she came. I know it makes no sense but knowing that she’s here has made me the person i was before and I can’t stop crying because I would have had such a good life.