My daughter's friend just told me my daughter is seeing things/people and keeps hearing someone say her name. She's 15.
She also said when she was having a sleepover she was seeing things and she went to see if she was ok but she started getting aggressive and that (her friend) isn't real and is trying to trick her.
I had no idea anything like this was going on and she seems normal to me. She said it's been the past few months and hasn't happened for a few weeks as far as she knows.
Anyone know what I'm dealing with here? What my next steps should be? How to approach the conversation with her?
Probably a steam engine.
Sounds like schizophrenia.
Take her to a psychiatrist to investigate.
DO NOT tell anyone else about it, and make sure she understands and believes you'll keep it on the low. Even in 2023 there's still stigma with psychiatric disorders.
>Even in 2023 there's still stigma with psychiatric disorders.
Good. Mentally ill """people""" are a useless burden on society and should not be allowed to exist.
Fuck you. Mentally ill ppl reveal hidden pathologies in society.
Mentally ill """people""" are a mistake of nature that needs to be removed to prevent further damage
What damage?
Yes, just euthanize me already.
>Good. Mentally ill """people""" are a useless burden on society and should not be allowed to exist.
Hate to break it to you, but if you genuinely think like this you might wanna pick up a new attitude. You sound not so stable yourself. And if you want to talk about burdens, your hostile attitude is a burden on others, especially the mentally ill. Imagine being a mentally ill person’s burden, how low is that?
>still stigma with psychiatric disorders.
I'm sure it has nothing at all to do with all those bipedal psychiatric disorders machine gunning down people at concerts malls schools and churches.
That's dozens of victims in hundreds of millions.
Do you really have nothing better to do? I can only assume you're some kind of mental delinquent...that goes shooting people.
It's worth locking up all the schizos forever if it saves one life. Hell it's worth locking them up anyway.
But that means you're taking their lives how is that different
Because they're mentally ill. Their life is a net detriment to society at large.
Those are just evil people taking advantage
Eh i don't know about that i don't want her on a list unless it's serious
Just randomly meditate? Any link to one that's not cringe?
By whom? We're in Ireland there's not a plethora of services like that here
No I'm not sure. My daughter did was acting weird at a concert a while ago saying she thought people were saying her name but i didn't think much of it at the time but looking back it would make sense
For attention from her friends? Possibly
Your daughter probably lacks sleep.
Lack of sleep can chain react into bigger problems.
Meditation has a relaxing effect. Modern science doesn't deny it.
She is probably out of rhythm with nature.
Things to do.
>Stop feeding her processed foods and sugar.
>Fruits, Veggies are must.
>Reduce screen time.
>Make sure she is sleeping alright
>Make sure she is in sync with the circadian rhythm
(Sleeping 7 hrs after 3:00 am does not work)
>Make sure she is exercising.
>Make sure she is eating her food at the right times of the day.
>This is a stretch but if you are living in a city take her to a rural natural area for sometime it will help her relax and regain her mental fortitude
>If she has any hobbies do what is necessary to help her improve on it.
Things not to do.
>Stop stressing out your daughter
>Stop telling her she is mentally ill. She is not.
>AVOID taking her to psychiatrists. They are gonna put her in medications that stunts her mental growth. She is in her teenage years ffs.
>Stop feeding her McD and other fast food crap.
There is a reason why our ancestors did not have the severe mental health issues our generation have now. They used to be in sync with the nature. We lost our connection to it.
If you implement everything at once she is probably gonna get pissed off. Take it slow.
I know she is in her rebel age and This list is a pain to do without pissing her off.
If you find its hard to implement any of this. Atleast make sure she gets the sleep at the right time.
As a parent its your duty to take care of her.
>Your daughter probably lacks sleep.
I had extreme insomnia due to some bad shit that happened to me and I had auditory and visual hallucinations.
This is not impossible.
Your daughter is fine.
Everyday after school meditate with her for 15 mins at least.
You should be by her side doing the same thing.
Taking her to doctors are gonna put her in unnecessary medications that is gonna affect her negatively in long term.
If all that is true it sounds like paranoid schizophrenia. paranoia meaning thoughts and beliefs that people/forces are trying to harm oneself. also auditory and mental hallucinations, as I said above. thought hallucinations. it often manifests during teenage years. get it checked out.
Yes, I'm afraid that sounds a lot like paranoid schizophrenia. It's not a death sentence, it can decently be handled with medication.
Good luck!
Be aware your daughter friend may have drugged your daughter
>all these awful replies about stifling her psionic potential and severing her divine light
Fuck all of you. If she can hear and see the dead she should become a psychopomp
are you sure this "friend" isn't just making it up?
she could be making it up for attention kek
More likely preemptively destroying the daughter's credibility for when daughter claims to have been raped by her; it's just another one of daughter's many hallucinations. The funny thing is that all the schizo simping in this thread is helping out the rapist instead of the victimized daughter.
Thanks very good help. Sleep could be a big issue as when her friend is over pretty much every weekend they don't really sleep and leave the TV on, get friend walks about disturbing her etc.
Also they just had a big fall out so this is another big reason for her to say it. I'm not going to lean to heavy into it then. I'll get her to explain what she meant when she told me at the concert.
We are in rural Ireland so being out in nature happens naturally, we eat good homemade food and rarely eat takeaway or frozen food. I've been doing a good job with their screen time the last year too.
The majority of schizophrenia symptoms don't emerge until late 20s, it's probably drugs
Thats 100% wrong
Hey OP. My advice is to please do not sleep on what you just wrote here:
>My daughter's friend just told me my daughter is seeing things/people and keeps hearing someone say her name. She's 15.
>I had no idea anything like this was going on and she seems normal to me.
Pay attention to your own observation. A 15 year old girl told you that your daughter behaves in a way that you don’t see and have never seen as her father, the person who sees her every single day. What does that tell you?
It should tell you that there is a higher likelihood that your daughter is fine and her friend is lying to you. Why would someone lie about it? Well, I haven’t a clue but there are lots of reasons. I don’t know your daughter, her friend, or their friendship.
What I can tell you is I once had a friend around the age of 13 who would often run to my parents house in a panic when we were hanging out outdoors. He would tell my parents he JUST saw me enter a white van and get abducted and that he doesn’t know where it was headed and would even tell my parents he tried to talk me out of it but I was not seeming right in my mind and that I didn’t listen and walked right into a predator’s trap willingly.
Of course, this was all bullshit. I went home that same afternoon and was confused as fuck, wondering why my spooky ass friend would make all that shit up.
Kids and young teens are fucking crazy. Don’t take your daughter’s friend’s story as the truth at face value.