Sorry if this isn’t the right place for this, but I was hoping for some insight from other people who struggle with this.
I do heavily suspect she’s schizophrenic, as do doctors. She’s a teenager and has been having a severe psychotic episode for the past couple months, but it reached a breaking point a month or so ago where she completely went incoherent, frantic, and begged to go to a hospital (she doesnt recognize her psychosis. She wanted to be in a quiet place to calm her mind and escape the gang stalking I guess.) Anyway she’s been in and out of the hospital twice now.
The issue is, she of course doesn’t realize what’s going on with her. The stress of being in the hospital seems to outweigh the benefits of the safety and routine they can provide her.
Yet, she’s stressed here too and turns to drugs and her addict friends. Shes aggressive and violent at the drop of a pin. She smokes weed heavily with her friends, who I suspect either encourage her delusions, and if they don’t she cuts them off. She needs to stop smoking, but it’s a “secret miracle cure for everything”. She needs to participate in some sort of therapy, but she refuses because she insists it doesn’t work for her (she’s gone maybe 2 times).
I miss talking to her. Now she will turn any conversation to talk about her delusions for hours on end.
I have a general grasp of schizophrenia and have experienced mild psychosis in the past, but here I only have an outside perspective. Does anyone have advice besides keeping things low stress and reacting her delusions calmly? Any ways to guide her into treatment? It’s all so much harder with the teen angst on top of everything else.