has anyone else noticed their friends heading into a severe mental decline?

seriously, i'm witnessing emotional breakdown carnage everywhere i look now. i know people are stressed, but they're turning feral lately. biting the faces off of friends and family alike over things they've seen on the news or read on facebook. and i used to be the crazy one. being mean to your friends isn't going to fix anything. the way things look like they're going, you should be gathering to you as many friends and family as you can, because it looks like you're going to need them.

it's so strange, being the calm one.

 

You've described me at the moment

 

when the going gets tough, the weak become feral. i'm one of those. :sheepish: i've witnessed about 6 or 7 of the nicest people i've known turn into raging, shrieking, hysterical little bitches and render into oblivion long standing relationships. it's pretty amazing.

just like being broke ruins marriages. there's a reason politics and religion aren't supposed to be discussed at the dinner table in company. family has to put up with you. friends don't.

 

I have not noticed those that are usually are pretty level being any different...well yet.

I have a few friends who are a little excitable and that varies from time to time and depending on the topic. Since most of those are long term friends, sometimes the conversations are just avoided, if not then I normally just sit and let it go as the rant dies faster.

Unfortunately for most who are stressed they usually tend to isolate themselves more and then it tends to amplify the stress. I have not noticed anyone who is removing themselves from our group per say........but worth watching for.

 

i'm not close to very many people. the ones i'm close to tend to act the same way and stay close regardless. what's a little fight?

but i've seen a few very sad situations lately between people who are usually close friends no longer being so. acquaintances and bicker buddies, like many of us here are, come and go.

 

nope..my friends and family are being the same old grouchy negative asses as usual..I don't notice any changes lately.

 

That is really unfortunate. As you stated stress is stress and for most they usually when they are friends put down an episode of nutty behaviour as just that.

Maybe pride? In that after someone has gone a little off the deep end, it is easier to just avoid than say.....guess I appeared a little off balance the other night, sorry about that.

 

thats weird....people say I am heading into a meltdown....i tell them i hate them, wish they were dead and then i spread some pretty viscous rumors about them until the bridge is burned

 

way to keep it simple!

 

mama...seriously though..i too have witnessed a meltdown firsthand...its baffling at some of the hurtful shit people can say during an episode,,,throw in a little bipolarness and schizophrenia and its broken hearts all around....

and then the drama!

 

ugh. this is why i only have two friends.

 

SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!!!!a

 

Have I ever mentioned how much joy you bring me? I was probably drunk.

 

i do tend to bring more joy to people when they're drunk.

 

I agree. Sneaky awesomeness aside, when I'm drunk you're the winner.

 

Well, my boyfriends best friend did try to murder him by strangulation, so I would say that was indicative of a severe mental decline.

 

sane people use guns.

 

That's right

 

I wasn't aware that sane people tried to kill their friends with anything... I guess that shows how much I know

 

sane people don't just try...