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FRUSTRATION.

I’ll keep this as brief as possible.

I have two friends who are just infuriating. Their hearts are the right place but they complains all the time about how people are treating them unfairly, though sometimes they are, and always exempts themselves from blame when they’re usually the one to blame.

I’ve got a lot on my plate already. I’ve become very irritable lately, ridiculously so almost. I cry every day and every night and although I assure you suicide is not the way I’ll leave this world, I can’t help but feel it’d just be so much easier to curl up into a ball and die…

They’re both very attention seeking, extremely sensitive and extremely annoying. I’ve never been horrible to either of them (knowingly anyway) but because of this they’re both driving me loopy!!!

One suffers from depression and is always asking me for favours and wants to talk. Although sometimes it’s nice, I’d like some alone time sometimes. He does himself no favours by not even trying to forget about the trigger of depression: he got dumped. He’s 15, he got dumped by his girlfriend of 2 weeks, a couple of his friends made fun of him… so he tried to kill himself. 3 times. I’m not saying it’s not a serious condition because it is and I do fully understand what it means to be clinically depressed. HOWEVER he talks about it ALL THE TIME. I don’t know what to say and it frustrates me so much… but I just can’t turn him away.

The other is just annoying. He makes me cry over the most stupid of things. He’s paranoid and a chronic complainer. He upsets me and frustrates me at least once a day. He thinks I’m mad at him if I don’t reply within 2 minutes to his texts; won’t work unless he’s told to but spends hours complaining to me about how his mum works him too hard. But the most infuriating thing is that he’s like a puppy in the sense that he looks stupidly sad if you ever say anything that’s less than 100% happy to him. For instance, I could say “Oh, you look okay.” He would then go and sulk. I don’t know whether he’s aware of it but he always plays the sympathy card and frankly I hold very little for him these days. It’s gone on far too long and I’m bloody sick of it. Again though… I can’t turn him away.

I’m sick of giving and giving and giving without return. Does the problem lie with me or with them? What can I do? I’m at the end of my rope, I swear.

(thank you to any who read this, and to any who respond)