Hi. I am new here. Reason I am writing is because a very very dear, closer than my own family level, friend of mine very recently had a psychosis which at first was thought to be drug induced and maybe would go away. They started to hear voices and experience tactile hallucinations in their body. A single voice at the time of my writing was someone they know in real life, and my friend was aware that it was just a voice not real. Their suspicion was it was triggered due to Ritalin. Which was something I suggested originally to check out, gave a low dose from my own batch (I was diagnosed with ADHD) and let them try and told em to get a diagnosis for ADHD too if it helps cos they really exhibited the symptoms. They went on with trying it apparently and got prescription from their doctor and turned out while using it at some point experienced short periods of lost time. Like completely gone and then suddenly back to reality. They stopped with the prescription shortly after from what I understand. What I didn't know was they were also using cocaine. I am not sure how often but if I got it correctly during ritalin use and before and after. They are an adult so I know I shouldn't self-blame so much yet I feel immense guilt and responsibility for what happened to them. They said, voices came back and they were prescribed antipsychotics. This was a week ago and while they were waiting for meds to kick in voice just got louder! Telling her horrible things mostly paranoid and extremely critical blaming remarks, constant chatter, commenting on every action, and worse telling that they want my friend dead or lose everything etc etc. I am bereft witnessing how hard and painful it is for them to go through such a thing. They changed their antipsychotic med to zyprexa and hopefully this one will help. From what I understand it is used in treatment for schizophrenia and that's what got me to this forum. I am not sure how to help my friend without making them feel helpless. I am also extremely scared they will harm themselves or give up and commit suicide. They do have a history for an attempt in their childhood. They were doing so well and in the last year everything seemed to crumble and this is where it landed. Please give me insights and maybe some educated opinions on how to proceed. How to be supportive without over extending myself. More importantly maybe how to help them have patience and strength and hope for future while tolerating this terribly scary and hard situation. Thank you for your time in advance.