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[quote=Anonymous]One of my roommates became schizophrenic while we lived together.  Some of the first symptoms were just seeming very off — she was t making eye contact properly (almost like an autistic kid but as a new thing), would laugh inappropriately and then say things like “I have an odd sense of humor.”  She was also talking a lot about this guy that she thought might like her and was flirting a lot with her, which didn’t seem that odd (maybe a little obsessive but that’s not unusual for girls/women at that age with a crush), but then we found out from the guy’s friend that he barely knew her and had been weirded out by her staring at him.
She’s actually in a really good place now I think but there were a couple rough years with her getting fired from jobs pretty quickly after getting them—at least one of those involved her stalking a married superior that she thought was into her.  Campus health was not too much help as they would t tell us anything and apparently couldn’t force her to get treatment—we were just sort of graduation.  It was also tough because her parents did not speak English and were potentially abusive (she had told a lot of stories about her father beating her mom and being really weird to her—we suspected even potential sexual abuse but it was hard to say if some of that was delusional.). She had a sister we were trying to reach out to but she lived far away and ultimately was not willing to do too much. [/quote]

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