Reckon my friend is insane? No flames.?!


Question: A 16 year old female teen, experiences auditory hallucinations (over her shoulder saying her name most common) as well as seeing faces almost everywhere all the time, not at specific times ie: evening before she sleeps. She occasionally (learning to ignore it) judges food by colour, most commonly she prefers to have white or pale food because it looks 'clean' and avoids brown because it looks 'dirty'. Used to base everything she ate on texture and didn't taste anything, but can taste food on command. Not really relevent but is obsession about.. locking doors and keeping herself clean ie: will overreact highly if she gets a crumb on her. Doubt it's relevent but also has very poor short term memory, will often forget things recently spoken about/wont remember what she did the day before in detail.


Answers: A 16 year old female teen, experiences auditory hallucinations (over her shoulder saying her name most common) as well as seeing faces almost everywhere all the time, not at specific times ie: evening before she sleeps. She occasionally (learning to ignore it) judges food by colour, most commonly she prefers to have white or pale food because it looks 'clean' and avoids brown because it looks 'dirty'. Used to base everything she ate on texture and didn't taste anything, but can taste food on command. Not really relevent but is obsession about.. locking doors and keeping herself clean ie: will overreact highly if she gets a crumb on her. Doubt it's relevent but also has very poor short term memory, will often forget things recently spoken about/wont remember what she did the day before in detail.

I'm sorry to here about your friend's dilemma. Apparently, by your account above, I would say she is in dire need of some immediate psychiatric help (or at least sooner rather than later) so she can get help before it gets worse.

The obsessive compulsive disorder may have manifested itself as an offshoot of the schizophrenia. Remember, schizophrenia is a severe and persistent debilitating psychiatric disorder. It is not well understood by most laymen (of which I'm one) & therefore I highly recommend she seek professional psychiatric help in this matter to sort it all out for her. Best of luck to you & most especially to her in this now & in the future!!





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