r/Assistance • u/Legitimate_Olive4333 • 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/OnnieCorn 19d ago
Is this your first time being with her in that state? Please know that she can't control it and she is not herself, losing her sense of reality. She needs to go inpatient. Do what you can to make that happen. It's worrisome that she would get violent. I would call her family or anyone who is familiar with her episodes. If not, call any hospital with psychiatric care.
I have a family with bipolar, for me one of the things that should be looked out for even before the manic/psychosis symptoms comes out is the state of her sleep. If she had something like 1-2 hours of sleep or nothing at all, that's a big NO no and should've taken her medications. Do you know her daily medication intake? If you can somehow get her to take the pills, it would really help (assuming that she has stopped taking her medications).
In my family’s case, we didn't made her inpatient. We took care of her at home, making her take the medications as prescribed. The antipsychotics and mood stabilizers immediately helped her sleep and calmed her down a bit, but the delusions and psychotic symptoms are still present (They don't immediately go away). Getting more than 4 hours of sleep is a good and a big step to recovery. Bit by bit she's slowly comes back. Partially recovered by 2 weeks and fully functional in one month, with consistent medication intakes and check ups with the doctor. It takes a loooot of patience to handle this. It would really help to have support from families or friends, even from internet folks.
I really hope it all got sorted out by now.
r/family_of_bipolar, just dropping this here if you need it, this sub has really helped me feel less alone in dealing with bipolar.