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I need help.

I’m in high school

My friend, I’ve been friends with them for about a year. Lately, they’ve become so irritating, annoying and clingy. Their group split up sometime ago, and so they’ve come to my group. At first, everything was fine, we got along, even if she irritated me sometimes. But now it’s just kinda grew. Now, my friend has bipolar disorder. as far as I know, I’m the only one who knows. they used to cut, and know they go to a psychiatrist. Everything is fine, I’m sure.

but lately, I’ve been analysing our friendship. lately, it seems as if:
- they have used me to make themselves feel better, like I’m the fat one and they’re the pretty one
- they force me to do so many things
- they try to brag at every possible chance
and others

I’ve had friends like this before, and it really didn’t turn out well. They were controlling, overbearing, and the only way I got out of it was that they moved away.
So I wrote all of this down in a letter, in a nice way, and gave it to them.

We talked about it, and apparently it’s ‘cool’ now. But I can’t help but think that it shouldn’t be.
Now I see that I’ve supported them in every possible chance, I give and give and give. But i haven’t felt a fraction of that returned to me.

They said that they’d give me space. So far, there hasn’t been much evidence of that. She also said that her shrink is worried that her bipolar disorder is going to grow into something bigger…

I really don’t want to be in another self destructive relationship! What do I do? How do I ‘get rid of’ them, in the nicest possible way?

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