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Posted by bliss mimic on December 2, 2003, at 12:12:56
I am seriously worried about my friend. She's missing. I mean, she won't -- says she can't -- talk. I see her typing papers, and she sends email, so it's not that she's without language. She talks in class too. But she doesn't talk to people socially -- or she talks very little -- and sometimes her words get jumbled up, or she says one thing when she obviously meant another, or she can't find words, and she gets embarrassed and even more quiet. She says she doesn't understand people, and they can be sort of immature or ignorant, but this happens to her around everybody, even sensitive people I know she likes. (Dysnomic aphasia, right?)
She USED to be v. talkative and articulate. But this has been going on for a year. I know she had a bad experience with prescription amphetamines -- she was on them for years -- and had to take some antipsychotics for a while. But she's on antidepressants now -- she's been through a lot -- and claims to be feeling better than she ever has before, but she's just ... off in her own world.
I think part of her is happy there, and part of her hates it, but she won't come out of this almost-trance. She complains that no one will admit that she might have brain damage (I'm guessing us, her doctor, her family) from all the drugs she used to do or from being depressed for so many years, and it seems to bother her a lot. It most definitely bothers *me* -- we live together, and the obvious change in her is hard to deal with, even for me. I'm trying to be gentle; I'm on antidepressants myself so I can sort of sympathize, but ...
And I can't find info about this sort of thing anywhere. There has got to be a way I can get her out of it. If you know, please help.
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