I am speechless . Thank you . My hair is a thing . x . x <| sep |> A friend in college . He was schizophrenic and depressed . I became friends with him during my freshman year of college and on the last day he said we weren ' t actually friends , and that his normally cheery personality was a facade . It hurt a lot , but I decided to persevere because I wanted to help . I tried for the next few years to get along with him , but I slowly grew more and more dissatisfied because he had the empathy of a rock . He constantly talked about how he wanted people to understand him , and yet just didn ' t care about me trying to be there for him . At the end of junior year he did the no friends shpeal again and I had enough . From that point I outright avoided him , which is unfortunate because we shared a lot of friends , meaning I didn ' t hang out with them as much . Come graduation , our friend circle did a final group photo , and I haven ' t interacted with him at all since . It feels absolutely liberating .