Friends

I know this isn’t exactly pertaining to mental health but I feel like it played a part in this. So basically over a short period of time I managed to lose a friend I’ve had for 7 years over a stupid argument. I know people say that “you won’t keep the friends you had in high school” but my senior year isn’t over yet and I hoped I’d at least have them till then.

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One good thing about friendships are that they can be rekindled. Maybe you guys should talk it out Friends are hard to come by these days

[Rick1on1]

Friendship is an important support structure for having good mental health - so feel free to post here.

Try and fix the relationship. It will be a valuable life lesson even if it does not work out.

Good luck!

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Hey Hannah,

I'm sorry you've lost this friendship right now, but maybe you can salvage it in the mean time by seeing what went wrong and how it's possible to "right" it back on the path of good times. Long term, yes, friendships come and go. In high school and a little prior, I actually somehow had a crappy situation where I seemed to lose a group of friends every two years for literally the dumbest reasons: they were older, they could drive, and sometimes no reason at all.

As you go onto new places and adventures, you'll make new friends and may even circle back and find friends that were in your life previously. I'm friends with a guy I work with who I went to school with and played hockey with....and his wife who I also went to school with. Neither were great friends of mine in high school. It's a weird world like that. The best you can do for now is work on your friendship and keep on keeping on. If the argument was that trivial, surely time will break that all up into rational thoughts where you both realize how "dumb" it was.

But don't discount the mental health aspect of friendships...having a lack of support from friends or anyone you consider a friend close enough to confide in has been linked to poorer mental health. So, you came to the right place. I do hope you're doing well and I really hope you're able to make things work with your friend.