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WTF is going on with my friend?

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UncookMyBrain

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My friend is not psycho, he has been relatively normal until he started his own business last year, and has been doing coke too often, he dumped 3 MDMA caps at a football game and he has been acting differently lately, we have all called him up on it and he denies having a problem, he went to his doctor who prescribed him the minimal dose of Paxil. I have been hanging around him to try help him because I have been through similar and he is displaying symptoms of PTSD, having somatic problems like on and off stomach cramps, sharp pains in the head.

The thing that is disturbing me though is his eyes look psychotic and he does some scat things like he lost his puppy the other day, he misplaces his phone.
He clearly has stimulant psychosis and I have witnessed it when he was on coke. I have even asked him if he gets paranoid and he said yes.

One night he was drunk and said he wants nothing to do with coke. Then today he says he is gonna do some to get a job finished tonight.
He says things like "do you think I have gone mad yet?" like it doesnt matter.

He used to smoke meth 10 years ago and was fine but whatever he is doing lately (he had prescription stuff at home, benzos, endone etc) has got to him, hes not the same, I keep telling him hes going to end up in a psych ward and he does not care, what baffles me is he knows what he is doing is wrong.

My best friend was saying he is battling something, he said possibly being gay but I doubt its that, he is banging a girl at the moment although he has never really had a serious relationship he is 30. He perves on a lot of girls on the street.
When he drinks he talks in anger about people in general typically people he knows such as them not caring enough.

I have been trying to counsel him and teach him relaxation techniques but he cant sit still, he always needs to be doing something, his sleeping is a bit erratic and so is his work schedule, not taking jobs in the morning and doing work late at night.

His symptoms but not attitude remind me of myself when I had a problem but the thing is I am borderline he isnt, so he is dealing with something completely different.... I thought he may have a personality disorder but he does not seem to fit one.
 
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Sounds like he needs professional help, and he can most likely kiss his business goodbye if he doesn't get the help he needs. Honestly man nobody here will truly be able to give you the answers it seems you are looking for. Try and help him the best you can, MAYBE talk to his family or talk him in to some type of treatment before things get worse and he crashes and burns.

Good luck
 
I spent a few hours with him today.
He is starting to worry me but he is still very social at work. The few things I did notice were:

He forgot his toolbox but managed.
When I mentioned that his drugs could be cut with something thats making him sick he spoke about getting a bag of coke that must of had metho in it because his eyes and nose were burning and he complained about it.
He said he heard a voice, a women saying hello which I did not hear at the time. I told him he is hearing things and he denied it, I honestly thought he was having me on but he seriously heard it.
A van was driving in front of us that had a picture of a slice of salami on it and he said it was like a red moon.

At one point I jokingly told him he will go crazy and I will see him in the psych ward and he brushed it off.
Then later when I seriously told him he is displaying symptoms of schizophrenia he gets angry, like STFU.

He is only displaying positive symptoms right now.

I dont know if I should try have him scheduled to hospital, I know the best thing for him is early anti psychotic treatment and counselling but there are 2 things wrong, 1 he seems very adamant on doing his own thing. 2 its very very hard to get scheduled here in Australia and is usually reserved for suicide attempts or if the police bring you in.

He also seems manic talking about how he feels the universe is giving him a calling.

I feel so powerless just watching this unfold, the worst thing is I see him every day and its like he wants help but I am not saying the right thing, I am scared for when he comes down or starts displaying negative symptoms.

Looking at symptoms I am pretty sure he has bipolar.
 
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what is his family or GF thinking? are they noticing a change in personality?

has stuff like this happened in the past?

is it possible to find out if he has been sleeping at all?

its also possible for anti-depressants to trigger a hypo/manic episode when you start them if you have underlying mental issues.

i think the best piece of information for him is to know that if you aren't sleeping at all or for less than 3 hours for consecutive days, and you don't feel tired at all, if you are constantly doing things and thoughts are racing really fast, its time to take a mood stabiliser like olanzapine asap
 
He saw his doctor today, he needs to get a stool sample to find out why he has had diarrhoea all week. His doctor said his condition("anxiety and depression") isnt curable it needs to be treated like blood pressure or cholesterol which to me isnt even a good analogy because both those things are curable.

I called the mental health service and they are going to call him tomorrow night and perhaps see him to assess him but its unlikely he will be scheduled because its hard for a doctor to assess someone. Even when I was mental I asked to go in and they sent me home.

I swear heavy drug use causes this, I dunno if the drugs here are cut with something or what because I was never taught in school that drugs cause permanent mental illness, doctors are only starting to say now they are seeing psychosis developing because of meth and marijuana but no one believes it, they always say it just brings on something already existing.

There is also word going around that meth here is cooked with xanax I dunno how true that is but people tend to agree with it, its like there is a culture here of adulterating drugs for fun.
 
Mysterie said:
what is his family or GF thinking? are they noticing a change in personality?

has stuff like this happened in the past?

is it possible to find out if he has been sleeping at all?

its also possible for anti-depressants to trigger a hypo/manic episode when you start them if you have underlying mental issues.

i think the best piece of information for him is to know that if you aren't sleeping at all or for less than 3 hours for consecutive days, and you don't feel tired at all, if you are constantly doing things and thoughts are racing really fast, its time to take a mood stabiliser like olanzapine asap
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He lives alone and he only got his GF since being manic which has been about 4 months now, so no they have not noticed, having a mental illness isnt always obvious to people unless you spend a lot of time with them and even then average people dont pick up on it at all, its why people become inpatient for a week here before being officially scheduled, to be monitored 24/7 for sleep disturbance, odd activity, eating habits, speech over time, self care etc. They also speak to the family about the persons level of functioning.

I dunno if something has happened in the past with him, when I call the mental health service they have his old address on file but he has never mentioned it or anything, he genuinely believes he just has anxiety and depression, I guess he had depression a few years back, I am going to ask my friend if he may have.

I was over his during the day this week where he had a short nap I asked if he slept and he said a bit, I know he is sleeping because he tells me how he sleeps in.

He has been hypomanic from before the paxil, and paxil should not be causing voices or a thought disorder.

I wish he was on lithium but he isnt. I would hate to think he needs an anti-psychotic. He functions well enough as it is now.
My main worry is that he is going to get worse and either go in to a full blown psychosis or becomes severely depressed.
 
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Fuck you guys complain a lot about being scheduled easily, its the opposite in Australia I think.
And they dont even tell you that you have a mental illness most the time, they just say you have anxiety and depression, thats what I was told when I saw a psychologist.
 
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Iv kind of had the opposite experience. I live in Australia and I was institutionalised after an old woman I met during paranoia/mania took me to the hospital. Apparently the reason for involuntary hospitalisation was because I pretended to attack my dad. I did so because he was giving me intense stress (they didn't know I was pretending I just wanted him away from me).

It took me almost 2 months to get out of psychiatric wards after working out that I had to play their game and pander to their egos. Then before I left I was diagnosed bipolar and told I should take lots of diff medications which I refused and I haven't had an episode since, I am not bipolar, it was drug induced.
 
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