Do you ever feel like cutting off your close friends?

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I frequently find I think about cutting off close friends and immediate family members because they disappoint me and I feel like they're ganging up on me or talki about me behind my back. I never know if I can trust people and am always afraid they will stab me in the back. All of this is not necessarily rational and I've lost friends because of it. Do you ever feel overwhelmed and like you'd be better off alone?

I used to feel this way; but I realize more now that my expectations were too high. People are not going to be everything you think they should be, just take what they have to offer. I've cut myself off from people before and in retrospect I wish I hadn't. That's not to say that some people aren't worth the bother. If someone makes you feel bad then you probably don't need them in your life.

Yes, which would leave me with no friends.

Yes, when they were boring as I don't want to waste my time, or if I figured out we have too few shared interests. And never regretted that I cut them off.

Yes, and I've done so which I really regret.
About a year ago this thought of cutting of anyone who's close to me came to my mind, I started ignoring several of my few friends and eventually broke any contact that I had with them.
As a result, I have no friends or family who really understand me, the strange part is that on one side I don't mind it at all while on the other side I miss the contact I had with them every so often.

If a friend upsetts me I can't be bothered any more. I love and hate people, I certainly don't trust them. Trust has always being an issue for me.

I actually cut off everyone for almost a year.they were not ready to let go. But I am glad I let them in again after the break.
It i not too difficult now to maintain these friendships because they live far away and there is always atleast a week's notice before a meet up or chat or whatever.
But in the same city, I have no one who has my back. I was terrified of conflicts, rejection and a whole lot of stuff in my head that I never let any one close not did I get close to anyone. So basically living alone and all alone.

i have a few freinds ive decided to start cutting off recently. i feel like it was never a freindship that was ever really healthy though.

You also have to consider:

- Are spending time with the right people.
- Your personality may attract personality traits or bring out traits in people
- If you cut out the friends you have will you be alone. (Does staying around a friend who did wrong feel worse than being alone)
- Is what they have done serious enough to shut them out (Have you done the same thing or equal fault).
- I read somewhere that betraying an person on the Autistic Spectrum, we take it more personally (although betrayal has a horrible sound to it and feeling).

I don't cut them out, but I don't put myself in situations where they could seriously harm me if they wanted to (this usually shouldn't require significant effort). That means that I don't have to worry about them stabbing me in the back, and at the same time I can keep their company.

Yes I hate friends. Theres this clingy woman who works in my company ( and I think she's adhd) and no matter how many times I have rejected her, she just ignores it and is so determined to be my best friend. But i dont want friends. I dont know if it sounds mean or not but I rather have no friends, and just spend my days off with my husband or on my own. I have an imaginary friend and I rather talk to her than have some stupid woman wanting to hang around me all the time.

I've done this a few times. I don't know if I was trying to test them to see what they'd say or if I just wanted to save myself in some way and start a new.

I did this basically after high school. I never had any "friends" at school in my eyes, I referred to them as "acquaintances" instead. I usually do this with people I don't want to talk to, I stop talking entirely and ignore them entirely as well.

Yes I've always felt that i always want to cut off all the relations with everyone because i dont know why but being with people depresses me

I've felt alone with even my closest friends and often wonder if I'm just going along with a charade.
But I keep in mind that regardless of how I feel they've had my back when I needed it, so I stay out of loyalty.

Sometimes I feel like cutting off their heads.