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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks PP, I am the poster who mentioned about my ex-gf above. She is 43 and I haven't talked to her for a while. She has some other medical issues as well such as Type2, PCOS, thyroid and was on anti-depressants on top of everything else. Weight gain was other issue for her. With time, she has gone really bad and would flip out or scold me for something small so I thought about removing myself from the situation and ended it. The only thing that would work for her is sleeping and no work or expectations which is unreal since she did have to work as a nurse and was under some debt. Issues related with peri continued to get bad and her having Hashimoto (low thyroid) contributed for her behavior, sex drive and ability to see things more realistically. what you can do for your friend is spend some girls time with her, may be go to massage, pedicure, or some mild drinking/eating out if she is ok with it and may be tell her to go on HRT or get some therapy in more casual way. Make sure to not make her feel that she has any issues otherwise she could get defensive and won't take initiative. [/quote]

OP here. I agree that spending more girls time with my friend would be helpful. Will definitely do that, and it may help just to lift her mood.

Your ex-friends issues sound really sad. It's awful that medical problems can affect people's personalities so drastically. That's kind of what freaks me out about my friend, but luckily it is not as severe with my friend and hopefully will not get that bad. I think the hormone swings do not just cause mood swings and irritability, but can affect people's ability to see things realistically like you said... that's the part that I find the hardest to handle in a friendship. [/quote]

Yes, it is still crazy for me too and I would never get answers. I wondered how everything going well would just go down hill so fast and the other person realized that too but couldn't do much. BTW, on top of everything, she also has ADHD. Lots of stuff. [/quote]

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