What is wrong with my friend? Why is he acting this way?

Question

Ok so one of my friends has gotten really close to me and was in my face practically today twice. Which is very odd and out of the blue. I shall call him Max

I was trading solos with my friend Sean, who plays trombone, when Max walked over and stood between us. Ok, I thought, hes just trying to help Sean since hes is Seans section leader and Sean is a freshmen. During one of my solos Max turned towards me and got right up in my face. Naturally I leaned back, but Max leaned forward. Awkward. But David, trumpet section leader was goofing off with trumpets, but Max only messed with me. Im not even in his section I belong to Gunnar who owns the saxes.

Then our clarinet section had an ice cream party after school, which nealy everyone knew about, and Max was there hanging with Gunnar and another of our saxophones. Weird coincidence. 
Almost before they left they were talking about something and I asked what it was, the explained and I said it was weird. 

Max then stood up, angrly walked towards me, and ended up extremely close to me. I was pretty scared since Max did the same thing to my other friend Fredrick earlier when Fredrick said the same thing and then lifted him by his shirt. Max then said if I said that again hed slap Mikayla, the girl next to me and other clarient section leader.

What?? Why is he being so weird suddenly?
What in the world is his problem?

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Note: no he doesnt have a mental problem. In fact this is the first times hes ever do this sort of thing to me. Lifting Fredrick by his shirt was also new and I felt it was extremely out of character.

We are fairly good friends, both section leaders in band and hang out during lunch. Other than the fact that hes been acting weirdly hes just a typical band nerd.

Answer 1

He sounds pretty weird for me... I think either he is experiencing a mental breakdown, or something happened at home that made him insecure and kinda lose it.



Either you stay away from him and never cross his way until you feel like he is back fine again, or, if you are good enough friends, go confront him, tell him how weird he has been acting, ask him what is wrong, and help him return to earth. He might be pissed at you for the latter option, but if you are good friends, it shouldn't be a problem. I was punched square on my face before when I confronted my best friend that lost it, I continued talking afterwards and help him calm down, We're still best buds til today and I never regretted confronting him.

Answer 2

A similar thing happened at our school. Our section leader had a mental breakdown because of how much pressure was on him from parents, school, getting into college, peers, and what was expected of him. The best thing to do would be to let an adult know if it persists.

Answer 3

That's really strange! Have you tried talking to him? Maybe he's going through a hard time or something...Or maybe something happened that you don't know about!



I would try talking to him. But if you don't want to do that, try and stay away from him.

Answer 4

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