Yeah, I have a lot of experience helping people with early stage schizophrenia (help) and this was hard to read. They’re at that point where they’re still self aware, but they’re losing the ability to self-analyze their behavior and filter delusion from conclusion. Just gutwrenching.
Broadly yes - although my understanding is that it doesn’t really impact the potential effectiveness of antipsychotics or therapy to “catch it early” as it were, its much much easier to get an effective treatment plan figured out when someone is still able to reliably show up to doctors appointments and trust the other people in their life.
So… let me get this straight: if I see a bulldozer in a hole, that is not the time for a “That’s what she said” joke, but an actual de-polymerized contraption of alien technology? (hashtag open minded)
Fucking hell, I really hope this person has someone in their life that can get them to a psychiatrist because this is some of the most painfully textbook early-mid stage schizophrenia/severe mania I’ve ever seen. Seriously, they’re even talking about how their pareidolia has gotten worse. I try not to armchair diagnose people but fuck this is like a question from a psych final asking you to chart your DD, but it’s easy and everything you write down is bad.