spiderowl Posted December 12, 2015 Share Posted December 12, 2015 Not sure where to post this but trying to come to terms with having had a friend descend into a strange illness. Over a period of time friend went from being confident (rather dominating actually) to being extremely anxious, avoiding everything, eating strangely, and regressing to a fairly childlike mixed state. It's been a strange experience. We weren't that close beforehand but it's still weird to see someone change so much for no apparent reason. Friend is now 'in care' and hopefully they will be able to treat this, but I've never seen anxiety like this. There were ritualised movements, tears, much distress, physical symptoms that no medical reason could be found for, and disconnections in thoughts. This was very unexpected from an intelligent person. Sorry if my style sounds 'remote' and uncaring. I am being careful what I write in case friend or anyone connected with friend should happen upon this post (highly unlikely but you never know). Having talked to other friends who know said person, we are all pretty much in agreement that something had gone terribly wrong. What bothers me most of all is I don't know what. There seem to be too many oddities altogether for me to feel confident this is anxiety. There's nothing I can do, other than hope the med professionals can figure out what's going on. It is just bizarre that someone middle-aged who has formerly been fine should change like this. Has anyone experienced anything similar? Link to post Share on other sites
JustGettingBy Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 My best guess is that something that is both traumatizing and stigmatized happened in your friend's personal life, thusly the reason they seem completely different, but didn't tell you. Link to post Share on other sites
deep_night Posted December 13, 2015 Share Posted December 13, 2015 yes, i agree. it could be something traumatising. or they were bottling up things for a long time and now they're having a nervous breakdown. maybe they have always been anxious but were able conceal it, and now that they're having this breakdown their hidden mental state is more obvious to you :/ Link to post Share on other sites
Author spiderowl Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 My best guess is that something that is both traumatizing and stigmatized happened in your friend's personal life, thusly the reason they seem completely different, but didn't tell you. Thanks for the suggestion but this really doesn't seem to be the case, except that a friend died that neither of us were very close to. Link to post Share on other sites
Author spiderowl Posted December 14, 2015 Author Share Posted December 14, 2015 yes, i agree. it could be something traumatising. or they were bottling up things for a long time and now they're having a nervous breakdown. maybe they have always been anxious but were able conceal it, and now that they're having this breakdown their hidden mental state is more obvious to you :/ It's possible things haven't been right for a long time and that I've only noticed the more extreme manifestations of a disturbed state recently. We did spend quite a lot of time together, on and off, but something has changed and friend is conscious of being very unwell. Link to post Share on other sites
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