(and I really need a little advice).
Even on this semi anonymous forum I am going to be careful what I write because I hate to betray the confidences of a friend. So I'm going to speak generally instead of going into the specifics of friend's situation.
We go way back, many years, good pals.
She had a very tough year in many ways: work stress, family stress, then more stress due to the pandemic.
We don't live near each other, when she called (regularly) she sounded really down. I told her I was concerned.
Anyway more recently I had no phone calls and was concerned as we usually catch up that way regularly.
Googled her name to see if she had work updates as these post publicly due to nature of her job sometimes.
Discovered she has a new social media profile where she has become immersed in the anti-mask brigade, absolutely vitriolic about folk like me who wear masks, comply with lockdown, etc.
She was also posting a lot about mentally unwell, but blaming it all on the Covid "hoax" and lockdown etc.
This was now several weeks ago.
A more worrying development (very worrying) is that there are references to a sick child which sounds very much like my own child. She knows the history of my child's illness and treatment well from previous conversations. She seems to be telling this story but pretending its a relative of hers (she doesn't have children). The details of the story shared are quite specific, I guess there is a 1/100 chance that someone else in her family has had same illness, treatment etc. and she has never mentioned it to me in the course of our friendship? It's unlikely though isn't it. She is using this story to further blame the Covid "hoax" for children suffering, which is very different to the actual situation for my family, but all the other details are the same.
What on earth am I going to do? I have tried to call her but no answer. Then have tried NOT to call her because I honestly don't know how to approach this.