So rumours have been happening..

So just now I found out from a close friend that people at my school have been saying things about me like
"She's really unpredictable and she never really tells you what's going on."
The reason I care about what they're saying is now this explains why no one really trusts me anymore (esp. in group projects) and people have become very hostile towards me.

I think it started because in English class, we had to present free-verse poems and I wrote an extremely depressing poem about my friend's suicide. People started asking questions and I told them a few things about how I was in hospitals and my eating disorder and that's where I met her. But the thing is, I've been through way too much to lay it all down on a table AT SCHOOL. There are many things even the closest of people in my life don't know about. and even if I did tell them everything (let's say at lunch even though it would take me a week to get through all of it) they would tell others and I would be called an attention-whore. I don't really know how to react when they start asking questions again when I go back to school (I had a day off today) tomorrow. What do you guys suggest I should tell them?

 

Tell them "No offense, but its not something I talk about"
Maybe add that it was a low time in your life and you're trying to move on?

 

I suggest you tell them that you are not a "attention-whore". You where just writing a poem about your friend, and I don't understand why people would say that you are an attention-whore because of that, and why people lost trust in you. How would they feel if their friend did that? They would most likely feel the same.

 

Ask yourself if they are the ones who should judge you. The people who are only pointing out your flaws are to weak to see your strength.

If they talk about you like that, they are not even worth caring about. Focus on people who give you positive insights!

;)