Key points

Nearly half of us have been ghosted by a friend, and the pain is more than just emotional.

Our brains process friend ghosting the same way they process physical pain.

Research shows that ghosters of friends experience increased depression four months later.

Long-term friendships deserve honest conversations, not silent disappearances.

It's Halloween season, and while everyone's busy carving pumpkins and picking out costumes, I'm thinking about the most terrifying ghost story I know—the one where my college best friend vanished into thin air. No warning. No explanation. Just poof— gone . Not the fun, sheet-over-the-head kind of ghost, but the modern kind: blocked, unfriended, and unreachable.

Welcome to ghosting , friendship edition. And as many reading this might kno

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