Tag: chronic illness
Disappearing Acts: When Friends Are Gone After a Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder

Someone loses her friends after being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and cuts her off completely. She asks how to handle this?
Friendship, Parenting and COVID

The volatile mix of parenting and COVID can creates challenges to moms with different values and sensibilities.
Can’t seem to make friends
A woman with chronic fatigue and history of depression can’t seem to make friends.
Having trouble making friends after a move
Life changes such as a move can often be disruptive of friendships.
Friendship and chronic illness
How do you maintain friendships with an unpredictable chronic illness?
Another reason why cancer sucks~
A woman talks about the isolation from friends that often accompanies a cancer diagnosis.
The sadness of moving on and leaving a BFF behind
QUESTION Dear Irene, Over the course of my life I’ve had two or three best friends, relationships that ended for one reason or another. Although I have a good marriage with a wonderful man, I’ve always felt incomplete without a best friend. Four years ago I bonded with someone who had been an acquaintance for […]
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