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Very recently, my 30 year old sister has been experiencing some troubling symptoms almost out of the blue. She'd never experienced these symptoms before, but I would like to share some of them in hopes I can get some answers and the help she needs and deserves. I know this community is not a substitute for a doctor, but I am hoping if I can give her a better idea of what she may have, she is more likely to seek help from one, because at present, I'm not sure she will.
Symptoms:
- Trouble communicating. She talks in circles sometimes.
- Believing she was literally talking with animals
- Hallucinating during daytime and nighttime, but more often at night
- Believing someone at her work was in love with her
- Asking people if she can come into their cars
- Thinking about despair when she walked into the neighborhood, then seeing all of the cars were black, then when hope filled her, all the cars turned white
- Thinking family members were dead and replaced, that she couldn't trust us
- Seeing that the cars in the neighborhood had changed and that many of them were the same ones she saw on the highway for a long time, and believing this to be an extraordinary and peculiar occurrence.
- Thinking she was literally possessed by Satan for a short time.
- Recently very religious (Christianity) when she's been an atheist for years. Believing God is communicating to her now.
- Quoting her, "I think of something first, and then I see it." Example: "I was kneeling on the floor, then I saw videos of people kneeling on the floor."
- Talking about colors frequently.
- Doesn't believe she could be delusional, whatsoever. When I asked her if someone else had been standing next to her, and didn't see the things she saw, what she would believe then. She told me that it would just mean that God didn't want that person to see what she saw. I'm afraid it means she won't pursue medical help.
Some of her writing:
"I see videos and images and objects in the environment that I have assigned different meanings to, but I think god is communicating to me this way."
"If I thought about doing something that would tarnish our family name, I saw black."
If anyone can help shed some light on what this may be, I'd greatly appreciate it. It took me over an hour to convince her that she might indeed have a mental disorder, but I don't know if she actually believes it and what this means. I encouraged her to seek medical attention, but I don't know if or when she'll ever pursue that.
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