I am posting this on behalf of my little sister who I am concerned about. From about 13 she has had bad mood swings, in a day she will be up and down like a yo-yo, one minute shes ecstatic and full of optimism, next she's in bed crying. She also have periods around 3 times a year where she will go through a very manic stage or a very depressed stage (lasting for around 2 weeks) she is currently in the process of a possible bipolar diagnosis (not officially diagnosed yet, they're trying to work out if this is the case and has been refereed to a senior psych)
Despite this, she has only JUST started going to the doctors, a month or so a go after me protesting she needs to. She is 21 and has two children (3 and 1) with her ex partner who lives and works in a different country. She doesn't work but is able to support herself solely on the money he sends her and she lives in his property.
She announced to me yesterday she was not going to continue going to the doctors, when I asked why she said that she was concerned that it meant social services where going to take the kids away from her. I said they would not at all as they don't take children just because the mother has a mental health diagnosis. She then told me that she does not trust social services.
In her words she said to me: Social services are corrupt. They will take children for any reason, even if there is no reason. Then the sell them to paedophiles and dangerous people. I can't let that happen, they're going to take my children.
I became alarmed when she said this as its not a normal suspicion. She said she was reading about it on the internet and how she does not trust them because they will take them just because she doesn't have anyone but herself to protect them. She is now convinced that social services are coming to take her children and that they're corrupt. She is convinced they're coming Monday and that the doctor she had seen Wednesday has told them to come. She was hysterical down the one, crying her eyes out. She told me she needed to get away and needed to get away fast and that her children where in danger. She said she is going to book an appointment for her youngest to get a fast tracked passport and leave.
I live up north and she lives in the South. Today I travelled down and told her she needed to stop this. I called her doctors surgery and booked an emergency appointment but she refused to go because she said they where in on the plan and they're working together, she told me to trust no one. She then got it in to her head that I am working with the doctors and social services to take her kids away and do something bad with them. She demanded I get out of her house and said if I didn't, she would get in her car and leave.
I am down here until Sunday (I am staying with my auntie currently, my auntie is not her auntie as we have different dad's) She has no family down here besides a brother she does not talk to. Her dad lives in Australia, her mum lives up north with me and has pretty much washed her hands of us all as shes remarried and living a new life with new children.
I really don't know what I can do because she refuses to go to the doctors. I don't think she is going to harm herself or the kids but I am worried she is going to leave the country/town and end up being alone or in a dangerous situation not knowing where she is or what she is doing. She truly believes that everyone is against her and having delusional thoughts that everyone is plotting something over her.
I have her ex's number but not a lot he can do as he lives in Austria and works there pretty much every day every hour. He comes back for a few days a month to see the kids and they go up there sometimes but pretty much it. I don't know if I should get him involved seeing as they're not together anymore.
Just don't know whats wrong with her or what to do.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Mumsnet hasn't checked the qualifications of anyone posting here. If you have medical concerns, please seek medical attention.
Mental health
My sister delusional suspicious thinking? I am concerned
8 replies
jadelindsey2 · 14/07/2017 23:13
OP posts:
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.