I really need some help. Something is happening to my friend and I don’t know what to do and how to handle it. I am VERY worried.

**Some background info:**

* I’ve known her since 2010

* She is my best friend

* Parents divorced early
 
* Distant father, abusive mother
 
* Raped by 1st boyfriend and psycially abused by the most recent

* Has deep trust issues (except for me) She trusts me lovlingly and blindly

* Is diagnosed with bipolar disorder

**The story**

This started a few months ago. It was right around the time she got rejected by a guy. She started telling me that her neighbours were fighting alot, screaming and shouting. The male would scream and yell just like her ex would. She would record the fights and send them to me, but all I could her was people talking, mumbling. Then it evolved into her hearing them talk about her, that they were going to kill her, that they knew her schedule and that they were going to ambush her. This continued for a couple of weeks. She called the cops but didn’t try again because they couldn’t hear anything and I quote ”They looked at me like I was crazy”. She complained about seeing bright lights sometimes too, like someone was trying to blind her with a laser pen. She recorded this too but I never saw anything.

I asked her to tell her psychiatrist to change her medicine, and she said he did and the voices disappeared for two whole days before returning. I actually got her to understand that these voices were not real, but got really upset if I hinted anything towards ”getting help”.

The thing was, the neighbours Were fighting sometimes, others could hear that too, but not hear what she was hearing. After about two months of this, she had to move out because the owner needed the flat back. Around this time, she went completely dark on social media. She said to me via text that she was going to take a break from it.

**The Escalation**

I returned to our hometown to meet up with her. What she told me, made me almost faint on the spot. She said that:

* 18 months ago she was at a party were she was drugged and was incerted with a chip in her throat.
 
* She can feel the chip when she swallows.

* She said she can scan the chip and showed me a printscreen of some app where she alledgedly had scanned the chip.

* The voices come from the chip.

* She said she has been to the doctor and has been booked to scan for the chip to remove it.

* She has been contacted in her head by other chipped people who have told her about the chip.

* She can’t tell me too much for my own safety.

* She believes her work colleagues are aware of her chip and that they set her up.

* I was floored. I tried to debunk it right then and there and what she revealed was:

* She started feeling the chip right around the time when her social media silence started (1 month ago).
 
* She has Never mentioned this drug-incident at a party before.

* She said others could communicate with her but couldn’t comminicate back to others, atleast didn’t know how.

She said If something bad happens to her, she will ”blackmail” them into telling me what happened. (How, I am not sure how she is meaning to do that).


I don’t know what is happening, what part of what she is saying is true or not or what this is. I want her to get help but she has told me to stop telling her and she truly only trusts me in the whole world. I don’t want to break her trust but I also don’t wanna see her suffer like this.

// A worried friend

*Posted this on /r/mentalhealth first but it may have been the wrong subreddit to post idk