I’ve just came off a web chat with a friend from my hometown. She’s had a bit of a hard time lately with losing her home, prem baby, partner suffering psychotic episodes but dealing with it pretty well. The latest corona has triggered her anxiety especially as her partner will be home more and she’ll
Not have her usual support network due to them isolating.
She has a online group of mums from a birth group who she speak to regularly. One of the girls had stated that as a key worker she was sending her kids to nursery as her anxiety can’t cope with them all day. My friend pointed out that she was exposing them to a virus and that she should try keep them home. Several girls in the group offers her help but she refuses. Now I’m a teacher and suffered crap abuse from non key workers having to parent Their kids and posted on FB about it. My friend copied my post and this girl has took offence. She has took it personally and basically told my friend to stop posting about corona as it’s upsetting heR and triggering her anxiety. My friend replied that wasn’t the intention but people are dying and people need to learn and that she herself is frightened.
One of the others girls who is clearly jealous of my friend has taken it upon herself to set up an new group telling the girls my friend is an naccarist. My friend knows as a group member has message her to tell her what they’re saying. I’m so upset for my friend. This girl is clearly a bully and twisting my friends intentions. If she had an issue why not discuss it rather than cutting a vulnerable person out in their time of need? I’m seriously worried about my friend but can’t even visit due to SI. Are we really in a generation of snowflakes we can’t even share news on case it’s not kind? Should we all infect one another because the truth is scary? I want to confront this girl as my friend is too fragile to do so. Even when my friend almost lost her baby this girl ignored all her messages and didn’t as much as say sorry 😐
Sorry for the rant. I don’t know how to help and freaking out for her safety x