I had a business partner, he was a great guy but was really flashy with the money we made -- there was one day in college when he brought 40k USD in cash to our class, and flashed it to some girls. At first it wasn't bad, but maybe six months in people started asking me for jobs, my friends dominated almost every conversation asking me to "teach" them how to make money (spoiler: exploit low supply high demand areas of the economy), people that I hung out with started taking advantage of me. People stopped treating me like just another person. I shit you not the president of my college jokingly asked me to buy them a new parking lot when I suggested they build more parking for students. Ridiculous shit like that.

This lead to depression and withdrawal from society, not just my friends, I mean I stopped going out almost entirely. I became way more guarded, I barely interacted with most people. Started taking benzos to cope with the stress... it didn't go well.

I completely dropped off the face of the planet for two years and restarted my social circle. Cool, until they found out when I made the same fucking mistake by being honest about my work history. Cue me being taken advantage of, begging me for rent, concert tickets, hotel rooms. I could go on but you get the idea.