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Giving up on friend who is on antidepressants

Hi, I don't really know where to put this and appreciate to keep this post anonymous please.

This sounds very harsh of me, but I am really giving up on a 'friend' of mine. She told me last June that she had started a course of antidepressants (I don't think particularly strong ones) and they were not for depression per se but to help with the side effects of a fever she had.

I strongly suspect she is still on them. Go back in time 1.5 years and she was so vibrant, hilarious, fun to be around, engaged and interested.

Over the last six months, I've seen my 'friend' descend into almost a state of being a zombie. I mean, she is still functioning and everything but it's like she is not quite there.

Here is what I have noticed and what concerns/frustrates me:

- Extremely apathetic - literally won't bother to text, call, facebook at all until I have to make the effort. This has been going on a while and has upset me the most. We used to be much closer. When I have raised it, it's like it is ME that is overreacting and nothing is wrong. But the reality is it's like she can't be bothered anymore.

- There is a rather worrying vacant look she has in her eyes, like she is dead behind the eyes.

- She is very subdued and just doesn't engage much.

- Everything is 'cool' or ''I'm good thanks'' in this faint, apathetic, bored sort of voice. Even if I ask whether that is really the case, it's "yehh"

- Makes no effort to socialise unless we really force her to. Like, even if we've arranged something, she'll get bored after an hour and go home with a headache, or will just come for a bit. Didn't even make an effort to come out on my birthday which really upset me but I didn't tell her that because I didn't want to spoil my day.

- Doesn't seem to enjoy things as much as other people. There was this HUGE social event recently which everybody in our friendship group was thrilled about. She just didn't seem excited/engaged at all. It was like it was just any other day of the week and that really dampened the mood - like I was SO SO excited about it and thrilled to be there, and she was like a zombie, I felt as though I was being over the top or something or like I don't get out much.


Does it sound like she is still taking medication? Because I honestly I don't think I've given anyone else as many chances as I have given her but it's like I don't exist. I genuinely can't be bothered to make an effort with her anymore. I'm moving to a new town after graduation anyway to start work, but that's what upsets me the most - she just is so apathetic about everything and knows that I'm moving away very soon.




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