What is wrong with this girl? 10 points for specifics!?!


Question: What is wrong with this girl? 10 points for specifics!?
Ok so there is this girl in my class and I concider her my friend. I think there might be something wrong with her. Certain things need to be strait and the doors MUST be closed or she has a freakout. She dresses really weird and has an obsession with shiny objects. She loves it when i play with her hair and often asks me childish questions like what's your favorite... She never pays attention to anything for more than a few seconds, often darting her eyes. She almost always taps her foot and gets up sometimes. She tells me about her "friends" that nobody else can see. She is quite anti social, iften questioning motives.She thinks there are people living in her head and sometimes talks to them. She always asks where she is, who i am, and who she is. She has scars lining her wrists and tries to hide them really bad. She sometimes gets a very distant look and won't respond. She has freakouts where she gets really crazy and laughy for NO reason but then she will randomly start throwing stuff and yelling. She twitches a lot and does things she obviously can't help (face and verbal movements). She never sleeps around me, i cant even remember one time. She cleans everything, all the time. She does everything in patterns as well. Please help. Am I just paranoid? Please name specifics. Don't tell me to tell a doctor or adult because once her trust is gone, it is gone. 10 points for most descriptive!

Answers:

I would think schizophrenia because of the people and voices only she can see/hear, I am pretty sure mood swings are also part of schizophrenia, cutting her wrists would be caused by depression (also causes laughing hysterically and mood swings and out-burts of anger) possibly brought on by the schizophrenia? Cleaning everything, patterns and having things lined up, doors closed etc... definitely sounds to me like OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).

You say if you see a doctor about her the trust is gone, so there is some trust obviously, can you talk to her? Maybe she really needs someone to talk to, does she ever talk about or even acknowledge what she does?

Try these links and read up on a few of the things I mentioned, Hope it helps :)

Schizophrenia

http://www.seemescotland.org.uk/findoutmore/aboutmentalhealthproblemsandstigma/schizophrenia

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Schizophrenia/Pages/Symptoms.aspx

OCD

http://www.ocfoundation.org/whatisocd.aspx?gclid=CKPujKCrlacCFUENfAodZEmKbQ

http://www.bupa.co.uk/individuals/health-information/directory/o/obsessive-compulsive

Depression

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Depression/Pages/Symptoms.aspx

http://www.clinical-depression.co.uk/dlp/depression-information/symptoms-of-depression/

Google, my own experiences



Maybe she has a touch of multiple personality disorder (where people believe their more than 1 person)
Or maybe she believs in ghosts and that's why she talks to people.
She may just be extremely picky and that is not too odd. Her preferring shiny things is just something she likes.



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"It sounds like she may have a combination of OCD, ADD, and schizophrenia" -Panerra

I agree with Panerra that is what it sounds like you are describing. But it's hard to believe this one girl has all that wrong with her. She is faking. She likes the attention. Something is probably wrong with her but there is no way of telling from your description which symptoms might actually exist. She has a problem making friends so she acts this why to make people pay attention to her. And well she did get you to be her friend so apparently it's somewhat working. What ever you do don't confront her and say she is making all this up. There is nothing you really can do but be there for her. Help built her self-confidence. Try to do normally activities with her. Don't indulge in her craziness but don't insult her for it either . . . try to ignore it as best a possible. Pay more attention to her when she is not playing crazy.



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It sounds like she may have a combination of OCD, ADD, and schizophrenia. She may be depressed because of these (said she has scars lining her wrists). Does she trust you more so than others? Are you the only one that notices this? If so, that is very strange. You could secretly slip her name to the counselor in order to keep her trust. People with the disorders above tend to show the symptoms you mentioned. You should probably look up these disorders yourself to see if the symptoms match, as I am not around her to know. Your help to her, although she may be mad at first, will be very helpful and she will thank you later. (I say this as her mental issues seem to affect her schoolwork and probably overall quality of life.

My own.



no one online is qualified to diagnose this girl. we aren't specialists. if i had to make a guess though i would have to say that i think that she is OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), possibly paranoid schizophrenic (the voices in her head that she talks to and not trusting people), possibly depressed and might have at one time at least been a self harmer (cutting). possibly dissociative (not living within reality and doesn't understand that there is a reality ( the distant looks and not responding) possibly post traumative stress disorder ( used to be called shell shock). these are all just guesses on my part. there may be other problems or i could totally be off the mark without seeing her or talking to her. she really should be seen by a specialist in mental illnesses. she is definitely mentally ill and in need of help.

i too suffer from mental illness and some of the illnesses i mentioned i also suffer from.



I went to school with a girl like you are describing. Turns out shes a schizophrenic. And she was all the way back in the 8th grade when she started acting just like the girl you're talking about. As she got older she got worst to all of us.....her friends. Eventually in the end...........she lost all her friends because she abused us all.....she hated us whenever good things happened for us.....she used us to fight her battles when it turned out the people/person she accused of picking on her never did....we graduated and the night before one of our weddings she made a phone call saying she might now show......she drove the few guys who dated her insane......and today she is a miserable 40 plus yr old........who is living with her mother......no kids .....no husband........no friends. This girl you are talking about sounds exactly like her. We too avoided things that we thought would be betraying her ........and WE were the ones that ended up being betrayed by HER. Be careful I wish you the best.




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