r/Assistance 20d ago

ADVICE My girlfriend spiraled into severe mental instability, psychosis and delusions. I need help what should I do? NSFW

So my girlfriend who I’ve been with a decent amount of time has begun to show psychosis and bipolar tendencies. It’s severe she has conversations with someone who ain’t there like full blown convoys. She’s constantly getting angry and tries to get violent. She cleans my apartment time after time even if it has already been cleaned. She is begging to get violent with me threatening to stab me. PLEASE HELP!!!!!

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u/Glitchykins8 20d ago

The moment there is violence, it's out of your control and you need serious, medical, professional help.

My mother in law had some pretty bad psychosis 3 years ago. She's always been a bit unstable but something just flipped in her brain almost 4 years ago now. It progressed quickly but we didn't do much about it for a while because we didn't know what to do, this wasn't exactly unusual as, again, she was always a bit off, and we just didn't want to deal with it because even on her fine days she was never really... Kind.

But it got to a point where she started to harm herself and her pets. Not intentionally but because she honestly believes what she was doing was helping her situation.

She thought tiny bugs with tiny back packs with cameras were crawling into her body through her eyes, laying eggs and cameras inside her to spy on her, and then digging out through her skin to report back to... Whatever or whoever. Obviously, none of this is true or real. She started covering herself daily, multiple times with big sprays, spraying a towel with it and wrapping up her guinea pig because she wanted to keep the bugs off him.

All this is to say that I have experience personally with the wacky do that's out there. (Plus previous stuff from my friend as a kid and her mother who refused her bi polar meds and often chased her kid to my house with a knife so she lived with us for a long time)

You must get her to a facility who can handle her. I managed to have a doctor help convince my MiL to go to a psychiatric facility for blood tests when we actually intended to have her be put away there for a few weeks to safely figure out what was going on. All I had to do was sign legal documents with a judge who showed up to say that was allowing this, as a family member, facility to take her in and that I was not doing it as a joke or a means to be rid of her but as a patient who needed actual help.

Your girlfriend's illness is not going to magically go away and often the violent cases only become worse. Seek help now. The facility can get her meds, guidance, and safety that you can not guarantee. Tell the truth when asked if you fear for your self and others

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u/Legitimate_Olive4333 20d ago

Thank you so much, it’s just in Alberta it’s almost like they don’t give AF until something bad happens. But yes I will start calling around asap

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u/tdlm40 REGISTERED 19d ago

Call 211 or Acess 24/7. Either one can send the crisis team