I've been wanting to post this for a while, and I am fortunate enough in the sense that I have yet to experience it.
I think I've figured out why interacting with troons who you may have been friends with is such a painful experience for those unfortunate enough to have had it happen.
Imagine you have a really good friend that you spend a good portion of your life in the presence of. Then one day, he dies. Completely out of the blue. You say your farewell, attend the funeral, and move on with your life.
Then a few weeks/months down the line, you start getting texts and missed calls from your deceased friend's phone number.
You're curious, so you go to his house, only to be greeted by a woman of the same age. She looks vaguely similar to your old friend, but a feminine version. You ask them some questions, and get the right answer every time. But you know, deep down, this isn't your friend. You know she's a nutter that's escaped a mental asylum or something, and likely stalked your friend before his death. Might have even caused his death in some capacity.
You report to the police that there's a crazed lunatic living in your old friend's house and claiming to be your friend, but you get nothing but crickets on the other end of the line, and if you bother them again, you're getting arrested for wasting police time and stating falsehoods. You try and tell anyone who used to know your friend, and to your disbelief, they will say that not only did they never die in the first place, but they were ALWAYS the woman occupying the address. You visit their immediate family and parents, since you can hardly believe this, and even though you detect some resistance in their voice, they too claim this strange woman has been your lifelong friend, when you KNOW this isn't the truth.
What's actually happened is that some mental insanity lobby has successfully argued in court that all insane delusions are to be treated as though they are correct. So we now have people running around claiming to be deceased emperors and getting palaces in their respective countries, people who believe they are certain celebrities despite looking and sounding nothing like them and being given film roles/record deals depending on who they claim to be, people who have had taxpayer-financed surgeries on ALL of their limbs aside from their torso and their head being wheeled around and feeling glad they no longer have to move, and people who believe they're astronauts ending up in space without the slightest idea on what to do before inevitably starving to death/running out of air/going insane and killing everyone on the shuttle, along with many other freaks roaming the Earth. And anyone who tries to do anything to stop this is punished by the law, because you're telling lies that people can't always be who they say they are.
Welcome to Transpocalypse Now.