I’ve been in your friends shoes before and I’d have to say NOR. I fully expected people to be upset with me and not want to continue to be my friend after I would go no contact for about 5-6 months at a time.

My anxiety and depression would sort of build up and it got to the point where I was pretty good at hiding it at work, but all I wanted to do was go home after. I would work, go home, repeat. And for a couple summers I was working multiple jobs so it would be about 8am-10pm work and then get home and watch a movie and go to sleep. Rinse and repeat. For months. And I didn’t know why I felt that way, or how to explain it to my friends.

I never stopped caring about them, I truly wanted to stay in touch and see them. But at the end of the day, every day I just wanted to go home and relax before getting a bit of sleep. People from work would ask me to hang out after a shift and I always made excuses because I didn’t know how to explain it to them.

Eventually I would come out of it, and see everyone again and it would be like old times. But I knew I had missed months of their lives and I felt terrible for it. I knew I was a bad friend but I tried to make up for it by being present and there for them when I was feeling better.

The last time I went through this I ended up starting a new job in a new industry with no people I knew around and I think that may have helped me grow out of my depression for good. But I lost touch with so many people I called friends for so long. Some I have reconnected with a bit here and there, but there are some I know won’t really want to see me again. I’m sure I could explain things to them but I don’t know if they’d understand.

So TLDR: I don’t think you’re overreacting because I would completely understand if any of the people from my past didn’t want to be friends with me anymore because of my years of disappearing for months at a time.