Best Friend Contract (hereafter 'Friend 1') and (hereafter 'Friend 2') hereby agree to the following: To go on silly, ridiculous adventures whenever possible (or to make mundane trips into adventures as needed). To tell each other everything.
- It was a few seasons ago on The Real Housewives of Atlanta when Cynthia Bailey created the infamous friendship contract between her and Linnethia “NeNe” Leakes.I remember the world — well, Black Twitter and Facebook land — collectively gasping at such a gesture.
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When I worked at Stanford University as the ecumenical Protestant campus minister, some of my student friends suffered from bipolar disorder. It's relatively common among people with unusually high intelligence. Bipolar disorder, once known as manic depressive illness, often first manifests in young adulthood. So on a couple of occasions, when I saw them exhibiting signs of the problem, I counseled students to seek psychiatric help.
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One such student went through a long and very difficult episode with her disease, which had been diagnosed when she was in high school. After she got a new therapeutic regimen in the hospital, and learned some new coping skills, she went back to school and graduated. She has had few problems since.
One of her techniques of staying mentally healthy particularly impressed me. She had plenty of friends, but they had not been terribly sensitive to her needs and issues related to her disease. So she instituted a 'friendship contract'. When she was first getting to know a new potential friend, she would give them a piece of paper, or send them an email, with the contract: If you want to be my friend, here's what you need to know and need to do. If I start talking or acting strangely, call me on it - ask me what is going on and if I am taking my medication. If I suddenly stop talking to you, stop showing up, become anti-social, do something about it - I might be going into a bipolar depression. Here are the medications I take, and when I take them. Here's my psychiatrist's phone number. Call if you notice something strange.
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When she showed me the contract, I signed it and then I said, 'You know, everybody needs one of these! Not just people dealing with mental illness.' Her idea is a brilliant one for us all. Everybody needs friends who will speak up when they sense something isn't quite right. We all need somebody to seek us out, if we should suddenly fall off the social radar. We all need friends who don't just throw up their hands when the going gets rough, but roll up their sleeves and try to be useful. It helps to get specific about the kind of intervention and support that we need.
Of course, friendship can get tricky if we intervene too much in each others' lives. Few of us want friends who are going to take over and boss us around. But neither do we want friends to fail to show concern when we appear to be in crisis. Sometimes we let our friends down when we go too far in protecting their privacy.
Each of us draws the line at a different place, so what a great idea it is to speak up and tell our friends what we hope from them in tough times!
I admire the 'friendship contract' that Jesus specified for his disciples. He let them know what he wanted from them. He spelled it out in detail: stay with me, watch with me, pray with me, preach with me, heal with me, continue my work after my death. To be sure, they broke that contract repeatedly. But his 'contract' with them was ultimately unforgettable. Even after he was gone, they tried to follow it with each other. His is an example for us to emulate in expressing to each other what it really means to be friends.