I submitted a question to the therapists but that may take 2 weeks, if they even answer it. The problem is my sister has lost her grip on reality and is in the hospital. She may come home tomorrow but I don't think she has improved. She told me she thinks she has post traumatic stress disorder because of the Virginia Tech shooting (we're alumni) and because her husband accused her of having an internet affair. I don't think it was really an affair, the guy was someone she knew in 7th grade who found her on the internet a year ago, and he lives in another country and is married. She had a crush on him and her husband got mad, forbid them to write each other, caught her writing him again, and told the guy's wife, but the wife thought it was a misunderstanding. Her husband I think is verbally abusive, and physically abusive to inanimate objects. So now she's been in this mental state for the past probably 2 weeks where she thinks someone died, or is going to die, and she can't figure out who, so she keeps checking to make sure we're alive. She wants facts on people who are already dead. The friend she was emailing was depressed because his mother had died. So then I think she had a panic attack, and had like an out of body experience, and thought she was channeling his dead mother, and that stuff was coming through the tv to her, and that her kids were him and his mother. It's really gotten our whole family distraught. My parents are in their 60's and are now having to take care of her 2 small kids because her husband has to work because they are having money problems. So she was hospitalized for depression and psychosis. Up until now she was pretty normal, although had low self esteem. Her husband also cheated on her years ago. My parents are having a hard time getting any information from the psychiatrists about her condition. Can this be post traumatic stress disorder, or dissocation? I knew her husband had an anger management problem, but I didn't really think it was abuse til now. Oh yeah, he also made her do marijuana to calm her down when this all started, and now she refuses to take her medicine. She has memory problems and thinks it's the medicine when really I think it's the dissociation. She thinks she can handle it herself, when we know she can't and that she needs help.