Story of a stereotypical sex worker boyfriend.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018 10:34 AM
My friend checked into a mental health facility yesterday. She is there because she had a breakdown and threatened suicide.
As far as I can tell, this is something unsurprising. She has not been taking her meds for her mental health issues. Nor has she been in a rational state of mind lately. She’s displayed off and on manic behavior for a solid two months now.
Yesterday, she got fired from her job. She was shocked and upset. I was unsurprised. She was constantly coming in late/no-showing. And she’s constantly had conflict with this coworker or that coworker.
She calls me, and we chat briefly. Then we text back and forth and she seemingly calms down and says she will focus on her camming. I encourage her.
When she has had her mania surges, she would “bounce back” after a few hours. I figured yesterday would have been like that.
I find out she’s in the hospital because her boyfriend tells about it later that night when he comes home. (She, her boyfriend, and I are all roommates)
And his main emotion is that he’s annoyed. Because rent is coming up due at the end of this month and he has to take care of paying. Her erratic behaviors and mental breakdowns didn’t even register as a potential problem.
And hopefully she can get out soon so that she can start “helping out” again.
I nod, and bite my tongue. And will instead vent to a discussion board:
1. Why is a dude in his late 20s stressing about paying 2/3 of the rent on an apartment below 1k/month?
2. Her current vanilla job makes below $15/hr. And that’s the only job he believes she has been doing.
3. She’s going to magically be able to possibly be able to contribute in a week? If she has to look for another vanilla job first?
4. She’s already tried asking “permission” to dance and cam. He said no. (She will cam behind his back anyways, but that’s beside the point.)
5. If she does get discharged soon, and is able to do so, where will he think she will have gotten the money? Hmm.
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