Posted by Kingfish on August 6, 2001, at 9:34:21
In reply to Re: Losing friends because of sharing too much, posted by Glenn Fagelson on August 5, 2001, at 22:54:51
>
> Hi Kingfish,
>
> My therapist said last week that I should
> try to be more cautious when telling a new
> friend that I suffer from clinical depress-
> ion. And yes, I do feel more comfortable
> telling an old friend that I have depression
> rather than a new one.
>
> GlennSo, Glenn, actually the opposite. Do the old friends feel "betrayed" at all that you "hid" it from them? Or did they sense that something was wrong all along? I've found that my "deeper" friends (sorry for all of the "") understood but that my friends who were aren't that self-aware, just couldn't fathom it, and would argue with me about it. Almost as if I were making it up...
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