What are the chances that chronic depression leads to schizoprenia?
The symptoms of “Though her performance at work are highly erratic. Periods of poor apathetic performance interspersed with periods of high performance.” suggest that she is bipolar.
Depressives don’t nudge against to schizophrenia. They move connected to suicide.
The danger beside medicines is that they provide you the punch to act upon what you need to do. And anyone that states “suicide is a eternal solution to a temporary problem” has never battled depression for 17 years. They just dont understand.
She probably needs assistance with affairs of daily living; provided you are battling depression, you can’t keep the house sanitary, and if you live in a pig pen, it’s even harder to battle depression. If you could go into , straighten things up, do some laundry, deep-fry a few meals, it would really fulfil a long way towards making her life tolerable. Do not righteous jump in and take over, though; she’s already burden feelings of quality, and if she feels like you are treating her similar an invalid, that volition make matters last, so *talk* to her, and ask *permission* to help with those things. (She will feel undeserving, thus touch free to plead with her, to be allowed to treat a deserving friend like the friend she’s .)
It may Be necessary for her to retire on disability. Social Security disability is deed harder and harder to get, but she probably qualifies, if the doctors fill down the forms truly.
And never underestimate the value of hugs. She’s been through hell, and there doesn’t seem to glucinium any end in peep.
