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So I have this co-worker whose personality has really shifted in the last couple weeks. It was particularly evident that she's experiencing a psychotic episode on Christmas day when it was just the two of us.
She is having a lot of paranoid delusions involving lizard people, aliens, the CIA and FBI. She has shown an enormous amount of insubordination to our Jewish boss because he's a "godless heathen". She's always been a kind of new-agey flakey person, combining Eastern and Western spirituality in a weird, messed up way but she's really obsessed with God/Jesus, religion, Heaven, Hell and karma. She's constantly talking about Almighty God and Hell. She says that her dead guru is speaking through her and she's constantly talking to her in her head. On Christmas, she told me that there are many unseen spirits living in her home and in her body right now that are speaking to and through her and I've seen her talking gibberish that she implies is the spirits that she's channeling.
She is no longer performing even the most basic duties of her job and seems to have forgotten how to use most of the software (that she's been using for 15 years). She called another co-worker up and begged her to take her to the airport or train station but has no destination and just wants to travel.
She's stopped sleeping more than a couple hours a night and then drinks an enormous amount of caffeine all day long and has complained about worries of a heart attack.
On Christmas, she ended up sleeping in the building overnight because she feared driving home in the weather (it was windy but not THAT bad) and I remember her saying that night that the weather was a test for her from God.
This is just a portion of what has been going on and it is evident to me that she needs help.
I and another co-worker that she likes and trusts are intending to talk to her about going to the hospital and getting checked out. She has, however, expressed distrust at doctors and I don't think she'll voluntarily go.
Either way, is that the best option? To try and convince her to go to the hospital? Are there other places we can try to get her to go? Is there anything else we can do, short of waiting until she becomes a public menace and someone calls the police on her (she has repeatedly mentioned that a couple of our co-workers are evil and representatives of death and I fear that she will act on it and try to hurt them. I mean, she is constantly chanting phrases about God, Hell and death at them.)
TBH, I don't like her at all but she seems to like and trust me and if she'll listen to me I want to try and help her. But I'm kind of at a loss for what to do.
If she does agree to go to the hospital, do I bring her to the ER or elsewhere? We're thinking St. Elizabeth's because of what happened to Maisie at St. Luke's. Any other opinions on medical centers?
She is having a lot of paranoid delusions involving lizard people, aliens, the CIA and FBI. She has shown an enormous amount of insubordination to our Jewish boss because he's a "godless heathen". She's always been a kind of new-agey flakey person, combining Eastern and Western spirituality in a weird, messed up way but she's really obsessed with God/Jesus, religion, Heaven, Hell and karma. She's constantly talking about Almighty God and Hell. She says that her dead guru is speaking through her and she's constantly talking to her in her head. On Christmas, she told me that there are many unseen spirits living in her home and in her body right now that are speaking to and through her and I've seen her talking gibberish that she implies is the spirits that she's channeling.
She is no longer performing even the most basic duties of her job and seems to have forgotten how to use most of the software (that she's been using for 15 years). She called another co-worker up and begged her to take her to the airport or train station but has no destination and just wants to travel.
She's stopped sleeping more than a couple hours a night and then drinks an enormous amount of caffeine all day long and has complained about worries of a heart attack.
On Christmas, she ended up sleeping in the building overnight because she feared driving home in the weather (it was windy but not THAT bad) and I remember her saying that night that the weather was a test for her from God.
This is just a portion of what has been going on and it is evident to me that she needs help.
I and another co-worker that she likes and trusts are intending to talk to her about going to the hospital and getting checked out. She has, however, expressed distrust at doctors and I don't think she'll voluntarily go.
Either way, is that the best option? To try and convince her to go to the hospital? Are there other places we can try to get her to go? Is there anything else we can do, short of waiting until she becomes a public menace and someone calls the police on her (she has repeatedly mentioned that a couple of our co-workers are evil and representatives of death and I fear that she will act on it and try to hurt them. I mean, she is constantly chanting phrases about God, Hell and death at them.)
TBH, I don't like her at all but she seems to like and trust me and if she'll listen to me I want to try and help her. But I'm kind of at a loss for what to do.
If she does agree to go to the hospital, do I bring her to the ER or elsewhere? We're thinking St. Elizabeth's because of what happened to Maisie at St. Luke's. Any other opinions on medical centers?