legit problems or attention seeking?

[insertnamehere]

i know a chick, we'll call her stacy. that was the first name that came to mind. probably because of that ting tings song.

stacy used to smoke pot occasionally and stopped because she said she didnt like how it made her feel, she felt out of control, etc. i can accept that as reasonable. but yesterday she was smoking hookah, like, with tobacco, and jumped up and ran upstairs. her bf went up to check on her and came down and said that she said smoking stresses her out. she sat upstairs alone for a good half hour. its worth mentioning that she smokes that on a regular basis.

she's also been complaining a lot lately of having panic attacks. shes all the time complaining of either having a panic attack or a headache. i guess the headache is more common, but saying shes having a panic attack has happened when i was there like twice in the past two weeks, maybe less time than that.

the other night she went to a bar for trivia night and god upset that people werent writing down her answers (they were going with whatever the majority of the table said) so she just got up and left and called her bf to come pick her up.

then she's complaining that everyone is treating her strangely and "doesnt know what their problem is"

[checkyourprez]

skitzophrenia.

[hpdrifter]

Sounds like borderline personality disorder.

[Audio.]

^yep

[Ty Webb]

light her house on fire.

[insertnamehere]

what exactly is "borderline personality disorder"?

ive always been under the impression that it's bullshit but i really dont know anything about it.

[Lex Diamonds]

I've got that shit too, I just hide it better. She's obviously a pussy. (y)

[Adam]

She just sounds stress. Stress does stuff to you, changes your personality.

Ask her if she's stressed. She may not think she is or has thought about it but plant the seed and then she might come to a conclusion about what the problem is.

When you become really proper stressed you think the whole world has gone insane when its actually you but you kinda don't realise you are stressed (or I didn't).

[insertnamehere]

hmm... i hadn't really thought about her being stressed out. i felt like she was just trying to get attention from people. i'll have to try to come up with a good way to talk to her about this without being like "so, you've been acting like a crazy lately." i suck at talking to people about stuff like this.

she's graduating in may, so thats stressful. shes also been having a lot of issues with her bf. hes 2 years behind her in school, and wants to do grad school after he finishes college, and wants to try to do some research thing in like seattle or something. theyve been together for 4 or 5 years and i think shes just starting to get the fact that they might not be together forever.

she just got a job. hopefully the income will lead to less stress rather than having a job leading to more stress.