This is regarding a friend who has a history of mental health issues. She was sectioned 3 years ago due to what appeared as a psychotic episode, which we (me and other friends) kind of watched escalate in slow motion and didn't know what to do. Then she got pregnant and had a little boy- and suffered sever PND straight after birth- her mental health team wanted her to go to a mother and baby unit but she refused. Eventually a different med started to work but I don't feel she's ever been her 'normal' self since.
Her little boy is now 18 months old. And over the past 6/8 weeks we have noticed a change in her behaviour similar to the first time she was sectioned.
We have a WhatsApp group with a group of 7 girls- we've all been friends since school and are pretty close. And it's on these messages and social media that it's become apparent that things aren't ok.
I asked her a few weeks ok how she was and just mentioned I was a little concerned due to some abnormal behaviour but she said she was fine.
It's escalated since then to constant messaging all day every day and getting upset/paranoid if not everyone replies or it's not straight away.
I think most of us have - after weeks of this- stopped picking up our phones as much as it's exhausting. And it feels like everyone is treading on eggshells as to not upset her, however some of things she has done/ said have upset other people but she's not really bothered about that
So my question is - what are we supposed to do? Keep replying to the same things over and over and pretend everything is ok? Or what?
I'm probably more resilient that some of the other girls but even my own mental health is suffering with the sheer pressure or answering her and no upsetting her.