My boyfriend is so sweet in every other aspect of our relationship but we recently hit a roadblock and my depression has kicked in pretty badly. He knows this and has been more supportive of me now that I’ve opened up to him and stopped keeping it inside. He’s started pointing out the things that I’ll do or how I’ll feel and it always is so harsh and just makes me feel worse about myself. He’s only done it a few times so I just said that he didn’t have to keep repeating back what I’m feeling or saying in such a condescending way because I already feel bad.

Tonight for example, I was on a call from some friends from high school who aren’t exactly the bestest of friends, i.e they don’t check in on me or ask me how I am only tell me about themselves and their issues however they’re my only friends and they always make it a point to take me out with them and he knows that. We’re also starting spring semester of college soon and I said that I’m not trying to make new friends or go heavy on socializing because I’m trying to bang out extra credits and classes to apply to medical school earlier. He asked why I still bother with my friends from high school and I told him that it’s better to have some friends than no friends and he retorted back to me with “and yet you don’t want to make any new friends?” and it rubbed me completely wrong. I’ve been isolating myself a lot lately, haven’t left the house for longer than an hour in about a month and a half now, and it’s important that I can text or talk to people who aren’t only him. This really upset me because he just points out things that I know I’m really struggling with and it only makes me feel more dumb. This is mostly me venting somewhere because I told him to talk to me later, but if you can give me any insight please do.