The past few years my mental illness took a severe turn and it has negatively impacted my relationships. 

Though I told friends and family of my present issues and poor mental health it hasn’t helped to maintain these relationships. This past year I’ve lost all my friendships and a relationship. 

How do we navigate relationships whereby the illness itself (and trauma in my case) makes it difficult to interact with people? 

Despite being honest with people and communicating clearly it hasn’t been of much benefit. People still continue to misconstrue my behaviours and distrust me... 

At this point I’m convinced people have little tolerance for those with mental illness... Stigma and discrimination is very real, it has an impact! I’m shocked by how fickle relationships I thought were strong and how it was only actually down to relationships being in a good place that they worked. When I was in a good place it was great however now I’m not people have actually been pretty short and horrible with me.  

How do you guys do it? Do you have similar experiences? It seems truly loyal respectful people are getting harder and harder to come by. 

Thanks