Hi,
Before you start reading, I must warn that this post will be long...
My older sister was my best friend, she was a second mum and we were inseparable growing up - she is quite older than me, but I spent every waking minute with her. She is also profoundly deaf but she had speech therapy as a child so she can talk (if that makes sense) but not hear, even with a hearing aid.
Despite being deaf, my sister was SO independent! She had a circle of friends from school who she would meet up weekly to go shopping/restaurants with, she found a part time job and she loved going to work. She was so bubbly and really loved life, she was confident and she had a good relationship with everyone, family and friends.
Over the years I noticed she would talk to herself but it was nothing odd, I mean we all do it from time to time. Things changed, 5+ years ago when our house was repossessed by the bank (family house) and we found out the night before, so the following day we had to wake up, grab some clothes and leave. For me and my family we were obviously shocked, scared and pissed off with our dad (mortgage was in his name) but it was easier for us to understand the situation then my sister. We had to move into my [other] sisters house for a while.
The day after the repossession when she sister changed. We went over to my aunts house and after some time, she got up and left - we weren't worried as my sister goes out all the time by herself but then it started to get dark and she hadn't returned. It was out of character and quite late and we started panicking, so much so we even went to the Police Station etc and after drove around our area, and kept calling/texting her and she eventually picked up but didn't talk - this carried on for an hour until she said the name of the area she was in. We rushed down and when I saw her I ran up to her but reacted like I was a stranger, she kept saying she wasn't going home with me/us because she knows 'it's just a plan to get her into the car so we can all murder her'. Long story short - she ran up to a man and told him that we were going to murder her and he called the police. Police came, tried to talk to her but couldn't get her to make sense, took her incase she was in danger but the following day they told us to come get her because they couldn't do much.
With the above said, I remember going to the station to pick her up with my dad - the officer spoke to me and said their line of communication was writing as they could not get an interpreter and when I saw it, she had written down things like "they are wrong, bad bad people, she [me] told me to stop it, this is very very bad she can't say stop it to me you have to arrest her'.
Anyways nothing has ever been the same again. My sister constantly talks to 'herself' - all day we hear her talking under her breath telling people 'they are in big trouble', 'they are going to get arrested' - she also constantly talks about 'getting her house back'.
I'm going to list her behaviours of recent:
- She keeps calling 999 and then hanging up, we've even had a visit from the Police.
-She will call relatives (the ones who she accuses of 'being rubbish'. She calls and then hangs up) constantly - 81 times I once saw on a call log.
-She will talk to the walls but has told my parents she can see people there (living not dead and had named them) and says things like "you are rubbish, you will be in be trouble' and 'fuck you' repeatedly.
-She will walk into the road without looking or she'll open the car door whilst it's still moving.
- If she pays for something using a £20 note, she'll walk off without waiting for the change.
and when she is angry, she will scream at the top of her lungs and when I say scream I mean SCREAM for things.
We are frustrated - we can't even laugh without her asking 'why are you laughing? Are you laughing because my house was taken away?'.
What is this? I can only assume its Schizophrenia - any advice, ideas? Has anyone been through something similar? I'm so angry with her, we fight like CRAZY all the time, I know it's not her fault but I can't take it anymore!!!
*Doctors are aware but very slow with dealing with this.