anyone (schizophrenic or not) have a comfortably sharable experience about this they want to give? i do, 24M and not schizophrenic myself but i have one less friend because of it.
he went from being a super chill, sweet, funny guy that made every hangout memorable to completely withdrawn and literally stalking my other friends within a year, then into a mental hospital. haven't spoken to him personally in about 5 or 6 years, when all the shit hit the fan. the stalking was too far over the line, he started standing outside my friends houses for HOURS at a time, or parked his car and honked a bunch of times. we found out from his parents after he started going haywire that his family has a history of schizophrenia, and he was doing way too much acid for way too long. ive done acid twice and just a few tabs were intense, he was doing half a sheet at a time from building tolerance from what i heard... a few months before this he started getting really into Christianity and sending cryptic religious pictures to the group chat we have. i was 17/18 at the time and didn't know much about schizophrenia, i wish i knew what signs and cries of help were at that time. i really do feel dumb and helpless when i reflect on it sometimes, like i didn't do enough. guess it's keeping me up tonight :/ still feel guilty that we cut him off but all my friends genuinely couldn't feel comfortable around him after being stalked, and i can't blame them. why do good people have to be so easily destroyable?