What can I do?
One of my sisters is currently in jail and I believe she has some type of paranoid personality disorder or schizophrenia. I’m not a psychologist so I can’t formally diagnose her.
This is the second time she’s been in jail. She kidnapped her own son and made up all of these theories that the judges and district attorneys were out to get her when she stopped cooperating with the court, they ended up giving the father full custody because she wasn’t cooperating and she went into hiding with her son for about nine months until they arrested her and took her son away from her to give him to the dad.
They offered her plea deals but she kept saying “it doesn’t matter what I do they are just going to put me in jail anyways.” Before going to jail she filmed herself ranting about the judge, lawyers, and DA on Facebook. In the videos she slandered the judges husband. She was contradicting herself over and over again. The court demanded she take them down as it’s a small town and could taint the jury pool. She refused so they put her in jail early and forced her to take them down. Jury found her guilty. About a month more in jail and three years probation.
She got out of jail went on probation and started harassing the dad calling CPS on him showing up at her childs school and ultimately violated probation by not showing up to court dates. Even though she acts like they are conspiring against her she went into hiding again after violating probation showing that she knows what the consequences were going to be. They found her after a couple days arrested her and extradited her across the country. Now she is in jail for the second time and still she thinks everyone is out to get her.
She only talks to one member of my family at a time and well before all of this happened she has never lived in one place for too long. She’s constantly moving around getting into conflicts with people and even not telling family where she lives acting paranoid for some reason. Why would we care where she lives?! But she has paranoia and does these weird things because of it. I guess they can’t do court ordered intervention right now at least that’s what the DA is saying. Is there any hope? Anything we can do? Due to her paranoia, if someone tells her she isn’t thinking clearly she believes they are an enemy.