worried. i have a friend who was behaving funny... ??

Question

whats going on...

mood swings, slurring speach, irrational behaviour and thoughts... jumpy, unable to follow a conversation, blatently telling lies, then 10 mins late denying it and saying i made it up, feeling cold..

appearing to be pissed off their face after a glas of wine and worse after two..

i can honestly say, that i have never refused someone a further drink, but i felt responsible and so did...

erm, mistaking me for someone else... not remembering who they know that we have as common friends, and really actually appearing to think i was a different person to who i actually am...

frankly that was a little scary..

any ideas what the F ?? please.

Answer 1

cocaine it sounds like to me classic symptoms,or maybe really drunk .but the first one is more likely!

Answer 2

You have described symptoms that could possibly be connected with a number of disorders or illnesses such as:-
Major Depression, Bi-Polar Disorder, Drug or alcohol abuse/dependency , Mild Stroke, and Concussion, to name but a few. All of the above are serious conditions that require expert qualified opinion.

If your question is serious in its intent then you should encourage your friend to seek medical attention with some sense of urgency.

If on the other hand you are just asking a question for the sake of it, well I guess that no harm will have been done, and who know/ perhaps you have broadened your knowledge from the answers you have received!

Answer 3

This happened to me recently with a friend. She is a diabetic and has had 3 strokes. She is only 47 years old. Her sugar (blood glucose) levels must have been up too high or dropped too low the day she begin to accuse me of thinking I was better than others. She said I thought I was perfect and I acted like the sun set and rose on me and my existence alone. Where did this all come from?...I don't know. I charged this to her head and not her heart.

Sometimes people do things that don't make sense. They speak and act out of line before they think. They are guilty about something so they lash out at the ones closest to them.

I have to redefine my relationship with her even though we are still connected because she is my twin girls godmother. She have not called nor spoke to me since the incident. I went to her house but she felt uneasy so I left. I hadn't done anything to her.

The day she spouted all this out, we were on our way to
the twin girls High School foot ball game. The opposing team was the school she graduated from 35 years ago. We purchased the tickets at school the day before (because they were not available at the Stadium's Ticket Booths) for my husband but he let her go in his stead. She drove us (my play sister was with us and another daughter) in her van and said she was going to sit on the side of the school she graduated from. We asked her was she serious. She insisted that she was going to sit on (the revile's) the other side. That didn't make any sense to us because we came together to support the girls. We asked her then would she drop us off on the side of the stadium where the girl's school was entering (we had the school colors on). She would not and took us on the side of the stadium where our reviles entered. She told us to get out, that we were strong healthy girls that had protection (meaning God). We got out the van and people were staring at us hard with the other school colors on, on their side. We had to walk all the way around to the other side of the stadium. When the game was in the 4th quarter and the revile team was beating our school team, she called on the cell phone and told us to start walking back towards the van. When we got in she began to boast about her team and started cursing. She said we owed her an apology for saying that our team would beat her team. That was not said by us and she swore we did. Why would we say that and didn't know that she was going to be on that side?

It was an eventful evening the whole way home. I had no reply. We met (saw each other) at church the next day and the pastor was teaching on what real Christianity was. It convicted her and had her un-easy. She have not said anything else to me. Maybe this was the goodbyes that I didn't have to say, huh?

Answer 4

I believe what you are describing, and viewing is drug addiction, in this case alcoholism.
More than likely in this case, due to the "residual effect", this is the built up of methanol residues in the brain tissue. Because of this build up it take very little alcohol for one to appear drunk.
If this person is someone you care for, my suggestion would be try to get him/her to start attending AA meetings. In any case it would be a good idea for you to check it out yourself, you really don't want to become an enabler. Not well written, but I don't feel like redoing. Interesting for me to note how many of the answers completely ignore, the onset of the behavior, is caused by consumption, of wine. I would suspect this is due to the fact that they are drinkers themselves.

Answer 5

Like emsy said,check with his family members and see if there is a history of this behavior,or if they have been noticing it too.If there is a history then they will probably know what to do.Is this a new friend that you haven't known long?Is this an old friend and this is unusual behavior for him?Let his family know that your worried and that his behavior scared you.That you care and want to see him get some help.I would be carefull around this friend until you find out what is going on.

Answer 6

A friend of mine went like this when we were 15 , he thought the tv was giving him messages etc and God too , he turned out to be schizophrenic, however im not saying your friend is, but something is def going on , if you can speak to his parents that would be a good idea advise them or him that a doctor needs to become involved , it def sounds like a mental health issue .
Unless they were taking drugs, are you sure thats not the case ?

Answer 7

Could be on drugs but could be a lot more serious! Not that I want to scare you but it could be a problem in the brain! Like an aneurysm or something! Try to convince your friend to go to the doctors! Or speak to one of his family members and explain your worries!

Answer 8

Classic signs of drug abuse.
Have they also made "new friends" and are quite secretive now...?
If the answer is yes, then confront them straight away. They need HELP, not to be shunned.

Answer 9

Could be any of many mental illnesses, could be drugs, could be a stroke cause a stroke and effect certain parts of the brain to cause those behaviors. He needs to see a doctor!

Answer 10

Needs to see a Dr maybe on drugs? Mental health??

Answer 11

Get him to a Doctor asap, those are classic signs of a psychosis (not as dramatic as it sounds, but definitely not anything to take lightly).