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My sister is insane, what do I do?
My sister is a fifteen-year-old girl dealing with severe depression and is currently taking medication for it. I've also asked this question in the past, but now it's just getting worse and I'm afraid it's grown far too serious.
My sister is still obsessed with the same older boy who just graduated from our high school and she can no longer see him and she also 'claims' she hates him one second, then loves him the next. She was molesting him with Facebook messages and everything. She got her little friend in on bugging him too and he's freaking out, so he messaged me on what to do. He says she's driving him crazy because she's warning his girlfriend that he is a 'dirty manwhore' and to break up with him. He's extremely angry about this. And so am I because her friend is just encouraging this and I know I should be defending my sister, but I know when something is going too far. We tried a therapist, but she was no help at all. My father is hardly part of our family nor does he speak English, so he's out of the picture and my mother is far to leniant on the subject. She doesn't realize how serious this is and I don't want my sister to totally hate me for calling the cops or something on her. I really want to help my sister, but I don't know how to do this.
How can I get her to leave him alone and completely get out of his life?
Note, my sister is extremely touchy and tempermental. Even if you say hi the wrong way, she'll get set off and bombard you about it. I tried to talk to her about forgetting him and moving on, but she yelled at me and she also found another boy she likes, but she got nasty with him the same way she did with the other boy and now he doesn't like her and she's upset about it... Should I just talk to my mom about getting my sister admitted into a hospital or...? Because the thought is extremely scary...
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Never consult a therapist who isn't even a doctor for depression or any kind of mental health disorder. They aren't qualified even if they can prescribe medicine to diagnose and treat this effectively if at all. The same goes double for a family doctor. Period. That's from experience and decades of it.
She needs to see a psychiatrist and have that person determine if she in fact is depressed or if she has depression that may in fact be built into another mental illness. If so you have to see if it is merely the undercurrent that fuels the main issue. She sounds as though she may be bipolar with up and down moods, impulsive decisions, severely depressed one minute, elated the next, and constant never ending harassment of others.
That's one type of bipolar the second is all of this along with delusions and voices, grandiose ideas, and the thought that quite literally she runs the universe much like GOD or is omnipresent, omnipotent with everything in life even concerning other's actions controlled by her mind.
Also, a big red flag is that sufferers cannot be reasoned with no matter the situation be it normal or not, won't see themselves as having a problem, but rather think you do and are overly sensitive and react strangely to just about anything. Been there. Was exactly that once myself.
I'm not a doctor but your mom and yourself to a degree need to wake up and smell the coffee and react because none of what your sister does appears normal. Then you have evidence that others say they are being harassed on phone and e-mail too and have documented what your sister wrote online or called for.
That's also a massive giveaway too as people around her will know she's acting "off of it." If there's a ton of people pissed off with her for weird behavior that's a problem. They can file harassment charges re: e-mail, calls. Also, teachers can see that she's not acting altogether either.
What your mother should do is take her to an emergency room as yes, it's an emergency as it could be a psychiatric issue and mention the severe depression plus this behavior and tell them you're all deeply concerned and would like an assessment done there.
They can't keep her in the hospital longer than 72 hours if that if they think she will be okay but this needs to be done as it gets tons worse for her and everyone else if it drags.
Molestation refers to someone often a minor who an adult assaults in a sexual manner that is of course illegal and not wanted. You can't do that by Facebook. You can write unwanted material in a sexual way to people who don't want it if that's what you meant. Overly aggressive, promiscuity, dangerous and or heightened sexual behavior is also tied in with bipolar if she in fact has it.
You should talk to your mother, show her what you wrote here and countless web pages that show bipolar and other illnesses looking exactly like your sister's and have them have the emergency on call psychiatrist at a hospital look at it as a therapist doesn't have the skills or speciality to do remotely that. It's better to check and be wrong than to wait and be sorry later.
Also, you need to know that regardless of what you sister has or hasn't got she's not "INSANE". She like everyone who has a mental illness no matter the severity is sick. It's an illness and just an illness regardless of name or severity. It's something that once treated with medication and counseling is dormant.
Just like Cancer or anything else it's just an illness and she's normal like everyone else once treated. It's a stigma and wrong to think of anyone with a mental illness as insane or to completely write them off. I'm sure you didn't mean that but I'm just saying this for others who read it and think this erroneously.
For her sake and everyone else's tell your mother exactly what you know is going on, who has been e-mailed and what they accuse her of doing and show her this response and question and get her some form of help. The therapist isn't cutting it and doesn't know what's going on. There's no fooling a psychiatrist who sees this all the time if in fact she's in this shape.
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