Well, long story short, there is this girl that i made friends with when i had no friends. TBH, i didn’t really like her even back then. But I decided to ignore my gut and just go with it. One day while talking to me she just sort of called me her best friend, and I didn’t feel the same but I had nobody else, so In my head i just said “whatever” and just sort of went along with it. The thing is, she was very manipulative to me. She would sort of imply that my parents were terrible and abusive people, and that she was the best thing that could’ve happened to me. And basically she kept on telling me I wasn’t good enough to find another friend, or girlfriend or achieve becoming anything. Since we hung out a lot and I actually believed her, I eventually got into depression. I would just cut myself to feel something and it sort of got out of hand for a bit. Eventually, I joined this support group at school that was held by the counselor, and met these 2 wonderful people who are now my actual best friends. And it’s not just one sided this time, because they actually like to hangout with me and spend time together, whereas it was never the same with my previous ‘friend’. The first time both parties met each other, My previous friend(I’m gonna call her my PF) told me I shouldn’t hang out with these people, and for the first time I said no to her. She got furious and kept saying that I’m treating her like a doormat by not listening to her advice. I clearly hate her by this point, and her mere presence frustrates me, but I can’t legally and morally do anything about it. My 2 new friends(and I’m using the word new very loosely, they’ve been my friends for about a year now) hate her, from the first time they met her. She was rude, obnoxious, and just saying “I just want to hang around you guys and observe what happens”. Also, she only shows this side of herself to me, and nobody else. To everyone, she seems like a nice, sweet girl, so that I seem like a prick if I say no to her. And she was also trying to get me to cut off contact with my other 2 friends for a while, then gave up. Even though this is just typical high school drama, it really stresses me out and I’m losing sleep over how much I hate my PF. Help?
