Okay so, I have a friend that used to be this sweet kid. A bit of background of him is that he’s really great in academics and loved by teachers. But recently, I have noticed he kinda became insufferable to hang around with. Not because he’s boastful. But I legit get drained when I hang around the guy. My theory is that the amount of school works we have to deal with. We share the same clique of friends so it is hard to avoid him.
The reason why I want to not be around anymore is that whenever I go near him, he’s always joking around unaliving himself. I suffer from mental problems and he triggers me sometimes. If not that, then he’ll go around verbally abusing anyone by saying a lot of swears and cursing like a sailor. An example of this would be at one time, me and my friends were joking around and he just starts to curse out everyone out of nowhere? Idk if he thought it was funny in the moment or what, but it was just so random. He genuinely acts like a toddler smashing his stuff around and even hit my sprained ankle at one time. His attitude nowadays makes me want to avoid him and some of my friends even share the same sentiment. Idk if it’s confirmed but his grades started to drop a bit because he’s neglecting school duties.
I don’t know how to say to him his attitude is really getting on my nerves without being harsh? Because I understand maybe he’s going through something right now. I’m not usually the confrontational type. But I don’t think I can take it anymore. What should I do?