My sister is moving to london

she now has decided to go back and live in London where she has a flat
She’s on her way 76 yr old mum is driving her 200 miles

she has according to mum had 7 or so weeks off alcohol
her detox was at home and was very severe with headaches, dislike of light, sickness. and basically a heavy alcoholic for 25 years is going to cause something to happen (she’s 40.)

she often confabulates and has a suspended sentence of 18 months for harassment (a bully who we think drugged raped and stalked her on line) he took her to court after years of abuse from her
she has been living with alcohol induced psychosis for about 6 years since her total deterioration and breakdown

I have schizophrenia myself (13 y out of hospital)

She has enduring psychosis - is very paranoid, talks to ghosts and shouts at people who she thinks are laughing at her.

Everyone is out to do her harm
Black magic everywhere
evil in certain things (objects)
and everyone is evil and means to do her harm

This feels so much like a first episode Schizophrenia
she has been using huge amounts of weed to calm her anxiety for the last few years
with 2 already schizophrenic sisters (our middle sister died)

she seems to want to recover away from her self induced prison in a dark room at my mums
she has given up drinking and smoking
but this feels like an enduring if not new case of schizophrenia

I hope it’s okay to re post this from the other forum.

I am supposed to learn to detach my mum thinks

I KNOW she should be in hospital
i just don’t think we can get her there in the NHS
they are out of money and haven’t been interested in doing anything to help someone who doesn’t want it

moving to London she rejects both of us not wanting to speak about anything as usual

Sounds like your sister is not mentally stable. Moving to another city (country?) in such a bad condition is unsafe for her. You must be worried about her. If you don’t mind me asking are you living in Japan ?

no, UK

she hasn’t been mentally stable in 6 years

i don’t know what will happen
she was very suicidal for 5 years
maybe still is

she self injures in the EXTREME

She believes what her mind says and talks as though it’s real.
That is how she behaves at the minute
and shouts at people wherever she goes because of thinking they are laughing at her

I have experienced this also. The slightest thing said against them helping and you get cut off.

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Wow, that’s no good. Since you and your mom can’t get your sister into a hospital and get a diagnosis, I think she might get the attention of the police and will probably get forced into a hospital.

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I think so too - she will find herself being arrested .
if she is lucky she will get forced treatment.
hopefully not a prison
hopefully somewhere that takes care of her psychosis and dual diagnosis

might be a very small chance that she will get out of her situation this way

but look at the crazies on the street
basically who cares about them

They can help people who have any compliance to go to hospital and MUCH persuasion from friends and family

but that was 14 years ago
since then the drive has been care in the community

not much good for florid psychosis

also honesty is needed

if you always say you are fine and can string a sentence together they ignore you completely

The healthcare where I live in Sussex is rubbish. The only good person I see is the pdoc but he is full of appointments and is retiring.

All is lost.

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i had good aftercare

my prognosis was very bad at point of going back into the community

probably got help because my sister died on leave from the same hospital and 2 would have been national scandal

my mum bought her ashes in and put them on the table in a team meeting i heard

totally disproves the rule that the NHS are rubbish

they pulled out all the stops for me

there is no way in to help like that in the system any more
and dual diagnosis
no one gives a furk about

Unfortunately my experience of the NHS post hospital has not been a good one at all.

so sad that someone you trust is going into retirement.

that is difficult

I hope your replacement is good

I am not sure they will get replaced. They have been trying to hire doctors for years

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there has been nothing for my sister though.
just not any help going any more i think

I wonder what happened to their budget?

it would be nice to see figures

It might be different in London

London is where people get lost

postcode lottery

I hope she stays safe. Is there no way you can get her in front of a doctor? Even a GP?