help for a friend

so, for a while now, a very closed friend whom i've know for 10 years has been experiencing what i believe to be psychotic episodes. she is female, early to mid twenties. for a fairly long time she had reported believing people plot against her, but now she's has a very complex explanation of motives and honestly bizarre events surrounding one specific person she has a working relationship with. her speech has been confused and hard to comprehend, she's been wearing strange clothes and not taking enough care of how she looks - i'm talking about basic human care, not anything stereotypic of women. she has admitted to two friends she's afraid of being called schizophrenic and sent to a mental hospital, which is why she doesn't communicate a lot about all that's been going on. her family is not supportive and they have more than once invalidated her requests to see a doctor or a therapist (she is still dependant upon her parents). of course i'm not giving her a diagnosis myself, but i believe she has DD and think it's really important that she goes to a psychiatrist who can properly evaluate it and give her medication. she doesn't recognize her experiences as delusions (me and other friends have talked about it and it's clear that she really has nothing real to support her beliefs). what could be made to help her find medical care and how could it be made? i really AM afraid her family might put her in a bad mental hospital and leave her there forever...

She'll have to be hospitalized involuntarily if you cannot get her to go. No they won't leave her in there forever . She'll probably only be in tlhere 3 or 4 days until she's stabilized and then let out. This ain't the 70s . This is the best thing for her. I have a schizophrenic friend and uncle. If that's what she has she could potentially hurt you or others. They are very unpredictable. If you can get her to go to a clinic on her own they'll give her medication that day and you can help her get stable at home . If you have to take the medication with her so she feels comfortable do it. It won't do anything to normal people . You're going to have to make her feel comfortable . It's not a big deal. Nobody really understands this stuff so it's difficult for people to comprehend. Schizophrenia very possible. Bipolar disorder very possible. Delusional disorder possible. She needs a antipsychotic . Something like Seroquel . Or Risperdal . It works for all three of the conditions she could have . Or she could just be taking drugs and in psychosis. I had a buddy like this and it was schizophrenia. After he was treated never came back.. I have bipolar disorder so I have a lot of these symptoms. What ended up happening to him was he resisted arrest and ended up in jail and then the mental ward. He was dressing weird. From what I know about schizophrenia. I also have a uncle that has it. The disorganized speech is a dead giveaway. I'm not an expert but his speech was extremely disorganized before he was hospitalized. Believe schizophrenia shows up around that age. My buddy was 25. A my uncle was 23 when he got it.