Have you ever had to cut ties with someone for being too mentally unstable? - I know that feeling.

Yes, with a friend who turned out to be what Gavin de Becker calls ''The scriptwriter''. Someone who doesn't respond to what you really say or write, but to a script he had made up entirely in his head. You call him out on that? Don't worry, he has a script for the situation of being accused of a disorder too.
Before he became a full-blown Scriptwriter, there were warning signs. Like, after a road-trip he criticized me that I refused to switch drivers, but he did not even ask for that. I even offered it at some point, but he said not yet. He expected me to read his mind.
Now, I am a bit afraid of how creative is his script. I blocked him everywhere and made myself a fake social media image, that I moved to work abroad, but even 6 years later he spams my relative with the sorry results of his script and sends her photos of dead animals.
 
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