My sister is turning crazy (for real), should I encourage her to think she is?!
Question: My sister is turning crazy (for real), should I encourage her to think she is?
She is an adult by the way. She is already seeing a shrink. A few days ago she saw a shrink and the shrink prescribed some medication, but the diagnosis seemed to make her more crazy. It's like she realized "hey they think I'm crazy anyway, no point trying to hide it anymore."
She just went to meet someone at a meeting place that she made up entirely in her head. She came home and didn't mention anything. A friend suggested I should ask her where she went, and who was there, to try to make her realize she's losing it.
She often tells us 'she's not crazy' and I actually find when she's trying to 'prove' that she's not crazy, she acts a lot more normal. It was because she saw a shrink recently that she started acting more crazy than normal (going to non-existing meetings).
So should I ask her where she went and who she met, or should I just let her continue to try to convince us (her family) she isn't crazy, because it gives her an incentive to cling onto sanity?
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Your sister is delusional. She is actually sick and she can't help herself. Nor can she "cling to sanity" if she is ill. She may have times where it looks as though she is "holding it together" but the sickness is still going on in her mind and the only thing that will correct it is the medication which the doctor prescribed.
That's right. She has to take the medication just as it is prescribed and let it build up in her system before it will have an effect. When it goes to work, the delusions and psychosis will slowly fade away and stop. And once your sister is regulated on the medication, she has to stay on it until the doctor takes her off.
And so it doesn't matter if she "likes" the honest diagnosis that her doctor gave her or if she wants to take her medication....she just has to to get well and return to normal.
And you need an attitude adjustment. You seem to think that your sister can just pull herself out of this...well, she can't. She is genuinely ill with a serious illness and nothing you can do can bring her out of it. She has to take her medication and follow her doctors advice.
I wish her and you all the best.
Try to get her out with real people or something. And personally I would ask her, if she wants to be vague about it, question her more so you can get details. I dont really know how to get to the route of her problem. Unless you act like her mommy and make sure shes actually going to psych meetings. Maybe some group meetings?
maybe a new boyfriend or hobby could help her.
im a bit crazy myself but not in that form....
the way i help myself is by finding a distraction that doesnt include drugs and alcohol. xx