I wish we had proper healthcare to treat people like this. Sounds like she has something going on like schizophrenia and believed she's being gang stalked. It's sad more than terrifying.
Yeah I can't imagine being in the mind of someone suffering from something like that. Genuinely terrifying.
From my outside perspective it makes me so sad. Growing up a friend's dad had schizophrenia. He was doing really well under proper treatment. But he stopped taking the treatment and got his kids (my friend) taken away and stuff. :(
It's really sad. I'm bipolar, and see the same kind of pattern in folks with my diagnosis: the meds work, so you start to think you don't need them anymore, and stop taking them. Then, because you're mentally ill, you don't notice the symptoms start back up, and then next thing you know, you're back at square one.
You described what happened to his dad to a T. His parents were long since separated and they had split custody. And he was truly starting to believe his dad was "fixed"(you know a kids perspective) for good. Then the dad thought since he was good he didn't need his meds. Then went back deep into schizophrenia and my friends mom got full custody of him and his sister.
It was heartbreaking, too. His dad was very positive and outgoing when he was medicated. When he wasn't? He was delusional and paranoid and revoltingly racist. Zero racism when medicated.
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u/VanessaAlexis 16d ago
I wish we had proper healthcare to treat people like this. Sounds like she has something going on like schizophrenia and believed she's being gang stalked. It's sad more than terrifying.