Anyone have problems finding friends?

[xfundy]

10. I do, too.

I guess I'm lucky in that I never had the "manic" part, just the depression. Used to tell my bipolar friends I envied 'em that part of the illness, at least until I found out how awful it can be.

Making friends never came easily to me, either. They say, though, that while you may know lots of people, you can count your true, lifelong friends on one hand.

My small circle of true friends, in nearly every case, isn't composed of the sorts of people I would have looked for or pictured as potential friends, which I find interesting.

Certainly your periodic changes (up/down) would be confusing to someone you'd just met; I guess people do kind of go by first impressions in many ways. I imagine someone who met you during a really UP time would have a very different impression than someone who met you on the downswing. (Speculation on my part!)

Do you go to a support group? I made some pretty good buddies there, and we occasionally went together to movies, hiking, camping, road trips, etc.

DU is a community, too, though I've never met anyone from here in person (that I know of), I feel as though I have access to lots of really smart, creative, energized people here. (And of course the occasional troll.)

Good luck in every way.