First of all I sympathize with your stress … like you needed one more problem in your life!
I see what you mean. You know, a person can be a jerk, and then get ill on top of that. For your sake, I hope she’s just ill, will get treatment and go back to her lovely self afterwards.
4 Childhood onset does happen. I know a girl and her brother that had it start in early childhood, so it’s certainly possible. I think it tends to happen mostly in people that have a strong family history. 5 hallucinations are pretty scary, that wouldn’t necessarily raise a red flag for me.
6 that sounds like typical teenage crap. She should have boundaries and limits, in fact it’s necessary for the health of everyone. However, there is a different way of doing it than with a regular teenager, it needs to be done calmly without drama. I don’t have my notes handy but I’ll try and look it up for you. You guys will get the hang of figuring out what’s illness related and what’s not.
7 the pathological lying thing. It’s sometimes hard to tell when someone is ill and when they’re just lying. My husband is a really good guy, he’s always been hard working, honest, always kept his word. I knew him when he was always like this. And now with his disease I get a lot of lying about stupid stuff- I can see him do something and he’ll still swear up and down he didn’t do it, until he sees he can’t wiggle his way out of it then he’ll make up something else. Or sometimes, when he’s delusional, he’ll make up this story. He seems like he really believes it. For example, one day he told me that he had to confess to me that he’d done something bad, he’d sold my jewelry, and he got 600 for it. Where’s the money? I hid it. Where’d you hide it? I buried it. Where did you bury it? out by where we buried the bird. Well, tomorrow, we’ll go get it. I have to confess something to you, I didn’t sell it, I have it in my coat but I was thinking about selling it…. and this could go on for hours. He never sold my jewelry, but I hide it now just in case. So, it’s not so cut and dry, even if she does have family that has a habit of lying, and she has a habit of crying wolf. What you say about them makes me wonder a few things, one, is she bi-polar? Does she have mood swings, and fly off the handle?Sometimes the drama queen stuff is more bipolar. You can still have hallucinations and delusions and be bipolar. If she really were making all that stuff up, she could have borderline personality disorder. “Out of the fog” has a really clear description of borderline personality disorder, and a very nice list of traits.