kong
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After a few months of zero contact I reconnected with a good friend of mine. She is exhibiting signs of extreme delusion, confusing what to me seem to be easily explainable tough breaks with a conspiracy against her.
This all centers around her mother who cut herself off from the person in question, although her rational explaining this action brings together an extremely wide, creative, and disparate set of circumstances which to the outside observer are completely unrelated.
I feel for her. She has been mistreated without a doubt. I fear her reactions to this mistreatment are in part creating and prolonging it. As I haven't spent time with her over the last few months I can't tell if her paranoia is the cause or a symptom of her being cut off from family support. Without going into details the support of her family is reasonable, expected, and deserved without question.
Her family lives a few hundred miles away.
She has a history of moderate drinking, marijuana usage (light), infrequent mushroom trips (once every other year), and as of late a prescription for amphetamines which she no longer takes.
She failed her last classes as she was afraid to attend classes. Several reasons were cited, all of which point to delusions and paranoia.
The delusions are extreme and intricate. It appears she has spent the last couple months researching a wide variety of topics in enough depth to tie them together is a vast conspiracy that is threatening her and the cause of her breakup with her parents.
I'm pretty good at coming up with bullshit (for fun). I can't come close to replicating the stories I just heard. Mind you they aren't lies, she fully believes what she is saying. What makes me think schizophrenia is how she constantly mentions communications between herself and her friends/parents that do not seem plausible. She mentioned some communications between me and her over the last couple months that never took place. As high as I am I am still absolutely sure of this as the communications were supposedly conducted over email and I never delete emails in my clean addresses (which are the only ones she knows).
My take: her significant other, upset about her infrequent drug use and moderate drinking informed her parents who then decided to cut her off. They are loaded and basically put her in an expensive apartment and paid her tuition, so to cut her off without warning is fucked.
My question:
What can I do? She didn't look like she was on or had been on amphetamines recently so I don't think this is a result of recent amphetamines psychosis (I wish it was, I'd feed her enough benzos for the next month to kill any speed issues for good).
Her rent is coming due and she is talking about having to go out on the street. She has relationships with two guys, but they both seem like assholes who are using her. They are both successful and well integrated into society so for her to be with either isn't the end of the world and maybe what she wants although neither seem to be stepping up to help her through this to my standards.
I feel if you are in a relationship with someone who should be there no matter what or you should end it. Giving someone in need a few hundred here and there and being on and off again is despicable. If your significant other is hungry, a bit crazy, and cannot afford her rent she should be living in your house eating your food and sharing what you have /end rant.
I'm a platonic friend, I want to help her without any appearances of sexual motivation (I'm a guy). I've got plenty of money at the moment. I'm trying to figure out what I should do. She doesn't want charity. Either way I won't let her live on the street obviously. I'm torn because I think she needs professional help, but on the other hand from seeing what that type of "help" has done to some of my friends I will do anything keep her from being subjected to "state sponsored treatment."
I'm almost about the ask my parents to take her in as they are mentally equipped to handle the situation in a positive way. I don't think she needs a bunch of drugs. She needs a secure living environment, a fridge full of food, place to study, gas money etc..
She really wants to work-shes attractive, outgoing, and has a great resume so maybe that will work everything out. I'm going to do everything I can to get her a job. Living expenses are low in my neck of the woods.
Thanks for reading, any advice is appreciated.
This all centers around her mother who cut herself off from the person in question, although her rational explaining this action brings together an extremely wide, creative, and disparate set of circumstances which to the outside observer are completely unrelated.
I feel for her. She has been mistreated without a doubt. I fear her reactions to this mistreatment are in part creating and prolonging it. As I haven't spent time with her over the last few months I can't tell if her paranoia is the cause or a symptom of her being cut off from family support. Without going into details the support of her family is reasonable, expected, and deserved without question.
Her family lives a few hundred miles away.
She has a history of moderate drinking, marijuana usage (light), infrequent mushroom trips (once every other year), and as of late a prescription for amphetamines which she no longer takes.
She failed her last classes as she was afraid to attend classes. Several reasons were cited, all of which point to delusions and paranoia.
The delusions are extreme and intricate. It appears she has spent the last couple months researching a wide variety of topics in enough depth to tie them together is a vast conspiracy that is threatening her and the cause of her breakup with her parents.
I'm pretty good at coming up with bullshit (for fun). I can't come close to replicating the stories I just heard. Mind you they aren't lies, she fully believes what she is saying. What makes me think schizophrenia is how she constantly mentions communications between herself and her friends/parents that do not seem plausible. She mentioned some communications between me and her over the last couple months that never took place. As high as I am I am still absolutely sure of this as the communications were supposedly conducted over email and I never delete emails in my clean addresses (which are the only ones she knows).
My take: her significant other, upset about her infrequent drug use and moderate drinking informed her parents who then decided to cut her off. They are loaded and basically put her in an expensive apartment and paid her tuition, so to cut her off without warning is fucked.
My question:
What can I do? She didn't look like she was on or had been on amphetamines recently so I don't think this is a result of recent amphetamines psychosis (I wish it was, I'd feed her enough benzos for the next month to kill any speed issues for good).
Her rent is coming due and she is talking about having to go out on the street. She has relationships with two guys, but they both seem like assholes who are using her. They are both successful and well integrated into society so for her to be with either isn't the end of the world and maybe what she wants although neither seem to be stepping up to help her through this to my standards.
I feel if you are in a relationship with someone who should be there no matter what or you should end it. Giving someone in need a few hundred here and there and being on and off again is despicable. If your significant other is hungry, a bit crazy, and cannot afford her rent she should be living in your house eating your food and sharing what you have /end rant.
I'm a platonic friend, I want to help her without any appearances of sexual motivation (I'm a guy). I've got plenty of money at the moment. I'm trying to figure out what I should do. She doesn't want charity. Either way I won't let her live on the street obviously. I'm torn because I think she needs professional help, but on the other hand from seeing what that type of "help" has done to some of my friends I will do anything keep her from being subjected to "state sponsored treatment."
I'm almost about the ask my parents to take her in as they are mentally equipped to handle the situation in a positive way. I don't think she needs a bunch of drugs. She needs a secure living environment, a fridge full of food, place to study, gas money etc..
She really wants to work-shes attractive, outgoing, and has a great resume so maybe that will work everything out. I'm going to do everything I can to get her a job. Living expenses are low in my neck of the woods.
Thanks for reading, any advice is appreciated.
