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Originally Posted by angelene
No, you're not alone. I've had copycat/one-upping friends before. These people are twisted and usually crave the spotlight because they have low self-esteem and/or chaos in their lives.
She's being unfair to you. You've expressed your feelings about what happened to you — and you should be considered the expert on that subject! — yet she still ignores what you're saying.
Do you think there is a way to talk to her again in a way that will help her understand that a) this illness isn't a stunt, and b) she's hurting you?
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I'm not sure how to go about talking to her again. I don't want her to get mad at me as I don't have many friends anymore and even less who know I was hospitalized and diagnosed as bipolar. I correct her when she talks about "knowing" what I went through, but I don't want to deny whatever she
is feeling by telling her I don't believe her/that I feel like she's grabbing for attention. It's always been hard for me to express how I really feel because I've always felt that people wouldn't believe me or that they would think I was being a wuss and I don't want to pass any of those feelings on to her.