27 year old male loner here. I've had interminent psychosis for the last few months; the thing is, while being like that, I said "fuck it" and I created social media and started posting on it. I started having interesting conversations with acquaintances. Took pictures of me I actually like, people have told me I've gotten "more handsome". I like the compliments.

So I notice that a female ex-high school schoolmate keeps checking out my idiocy. One day we just end up chatting a lot. I'm no longer psychotic. Now we chat everyday. We're  still not very close but we've said intimate things to one another (not on a romantic level). She knows my psychiatric diagnoses, me being unemployed for the last few months, and my struggle with sobriety and constantly relapsing. And she has opened up about her personal life too.

This is new to me, I haven't had a relationship like this in years since I was underage. I've never had a single female friend in all my life as an adult; and not any girl, a woman the same age as me which knows I'm a loony.

I don't have bad intentions. I'm attracted to women but my intention is not romance here, my eyes are starving for a genuine friendship with another human being. I just want a friend. I don't even understand why she keeps chatting to me. I'm unemployed, financially broke, a drug addict and a psychiatric patient; I got nothing to offer to her and she keeps being nice. She even has a son to take care of (no relationship with another man) and she still chats me up "hey, how are you feeling today, everything good?". It's not like I just chat her and wait for her replies; she initiates conversation if I don't and I don't mind that, she probably knows I get paranoid+shy when I'm depressed.