Hi Everybody! I have a best friend, she is a 28-year-old woman, a training lawyer. Her mother is diagnosed with schizophrenia. She had her first psychotic episode 1,5 year ago, the next about one year ago, and now the third. She quited her workplace again (was a good studio legale), which is the biggest problem now. She made a dicision again, that makes her life really difficult, because of her paranoid delusions. I really worry for her. I want to help, but I don’t know, how could I… She doesn’t want to accept her illnes, she never tried to visit a doctor.
Can you give me advice, what could I do for her and how should I? Maybe you have ideas from your own lifes, what was helpful and what was hurtful for you in accepting help.
How is your life since medical therapy? If you take them regularly, are you at all free from symptoms? Do you experience any side effects?
What do you think, what does she really need now from a friend? (She thinks that others, bosses and foreigns are monitoring her phone, use her facebook and her pc, tries to catch her, follow her in vehicles and everywhere in the city…even she had once said that someone wants to sale her organs.) Should I just be with her until it’s over again, and then try to talk about medical help?
Thanks for reading, and I’m thankful for any help and advice.
Have a nice day!
First and foremost priority is to take her to nearest renowned pdoc…
so U can help Ur friend and her Mom…so Do it…the sooner the better outcome would be…plz…
Peace…
Thank you for your answer. I know she needs a doctor. (Her mother is already recieving therapy - but she doesn’t take them always, and she had come down in her life - her daugther had seen it through. I think, it makes her much harder to accept that she has this illnes too. I can not imagine, how hard is it anyway.) I thought, maybe I could make her understand that she do, and make her go to a doctor by her own. (I know, it is unrealistic, while she has her episode. - but is it that after it, too?) Isn’t it harmful in her compliance later, if it was not her own decision? Or is it a situation that she understands later?
She will understand later on…Cuz after this illness only anti psychotic would be a first choice or help along
other Psychotherapies…so convenience her that her symptoms will get better after pdoc meet…
cuz medicine helps people…it’s matter of trail and error… if u ask me ???As a schizophrenic med has help
me to live an ordinary life to some extend…and things would get better eventually… i am praying for friends mother…
take care…
Peace…