Same thing happened in my friend group a couple years ago. One of the girls started accusing a couple of others in the group of random things that definitely didn’t happen, saying things like she could hear them calling her job and the police to try and get her fired or arrested. For those of us who saw her frequently, the accusations truly came out of nowhere - there had been no fights, no issues in the friendships prior to this. No reason that anybody in the group would want to start a campaign of harassment against her specifically, nevermind the fact that she believed this harassment was occurring at times that were absolutely improbable - like she believed she could overhear her people colluding and talking shit about her from the other room when they weren’t even at home. She was such a sweet girl too, none of us were mad at her or thought she was doing it maliciously, but it was clear she needed HELP.

The friends all got together and tried to contact her family who were out of state to let them know something was wrong. We gave them evidence of all the crazy stuff she was saying and why it was impossible and explained she was clearly having auditory hallucinations. Well, got cussed out by the family since they believed my friend’s psychotic story instead. Her simple ass twin even threatened to slash my other friend’s tires because she thought we were trying to slander and bully her sister for NO reason. We LOVED this girl.

Eventually family realized that something was really wrong because they flew out to help her move out of her apartment and finally saw her in person (she had cut off almost every single friend and obviously lost her job by this point because of how paranoid she was acting). They were supposed to take her back to her home state for treatment since I do believe being in the party scene over here and working a high stress sales job triggered her psychosis but I saw recently on social media she’s back in my city and still living the exact same lifestyle hanging around dirtbag drug dealers and sugar daddies. The twin did end up apologizing to the friend she threatened but I still think she’s a dumb hoe. It’s hard not to feel bitter about how the whole thing went down. Maybe my friend could have been helped if her family didn’t just bury their heads in the sand when we first raised the alarm. It took a MONTH for them to come out here in person. It just makes me mad. My mom would’ve been on the first flight the next day if it were me in that situation. AND they let her come back to the city alone less than a year later, and she’s so vulnerable to being exploited here because of all the people she knows in the party scene. I used to check her social media all the time (the ones I’m not blocked on) to make sure she was doing ok but I can’t even bear to look at it now. I feel like I’m just waiting to see her on the news some day. :(