What I needed from people I previously trusted and loved was to be treated with a lot more compassion than they were willing to give me. What I didn’t deserve was to be slandered on social media and have my struggles mischaracterised out of spite. What I had hoped that these people were better at was empathising with someone who has mental health issues seeing as they often talk about mental health issues… but I now sit with the discomfort that none of these people were nearly as empathetic or as compassionate as I thought them to be.
Not to me, anyway. Maybe to people they actually care about. 😔 This is where people in my inner circle come in: they immediately showed me the kind of care my former so-called “friends” categorically didn’t.