TL;DR I came out to my best friend. Text dump ahead, full of drama:
I did a pretty stupid thing but I couldn't take it anymore, I came out to my best friend who I've known for almost 16 years.
I don't know why I did it.
We've always had a really close relationship, grew up as nerds, we kept contact online every day and even away from each other we had tons of funny memories playing Ragnarok Online together and pvping together in BGs and arenas in WoW.
It was dumb for me to come out to him but I did. I don't know why. It was eating me up. I'm at the point where I've alienated everyone else I had any relationship with and I have mental illnesses so my best friend is use to instability and craziness.
This was different.
He was very polite, he wished me the best, that I would get help and that he knew I had been miserable for a long time and understood now why, if this was a reason.
There was no "Oh my god, that's just disgusting, you're evil." or "You're going to hell, you're a monster!!"
Just silent shock.
But he also said it was over, more or less, that it was best to part ways and no longer speak to each other. He has always been a good person to me but he also has a strong moral character and was raised Catholic, though he was never a bible thumper and didn't like people who rained judgement upon others.
I kind of knew this before I told him and I had an idea of what the outcome was, I felt good getting it out..but then I saw that response, that goodbye and it just hurt me.
I've been pretty numb for a long time, only feeling pleasure through the few things I enjoy, but now I'm just feeling..actual emotional pain.
I haven't felt like this since my grandfather and cat that I had since a kid died. Yeah, I know it seems silly putting those two events in the same sentence but they impacted me heavily.
This is like that.
In the past when I felt most alone I always knew I had my friend but I burned my last bridge in a moment of manic self-sabotage.
I'm stupid and it hurts. I have no one to blame but myself.
I'm really alone now, I guess.