"Recently, the actress Claire Danes admitted she suffered from a ‘phobia’ of female friendships... she became mistrustful of other girls after being bullied at school."

"That’s a feeling Hayley McLean can identify with. She was recently diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of the bullying she endured as a child. For the 35-year-old mother of three, from Paignton, Devon, even the thought of being surrounded by other women is enough to bring on a panic attack. 'It started in primary school,’ recalls Hayley. ‘A girl took a sudden dislike to me. She’d call me names in front of the other kids — goofy, skinny, ugly — and she’d threaten and intimidate me....'"

From "Why do some women have NO female friends? Here three of them describe the isolation that began in childhood and how they yearn to overcome it."