Would you abandon your schizo girlfriend in Japan?

>homeless in Japan

No

If undelete can't cache it, it's just gone right?

Basically OPs schizo friend is refusing to take their meds right after landing in japan

https://web.archive.org/web/20240524141946/https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanTravel/comments/1czgqln/emergency_friend_is_having_schizophrenic_episode/?rdt=55574

I'm sorry if this is the wrong sub but I don't know what to do.

I am traveling with a friend and her bf to Japan for a month. I knew slightly that my friend had schizophrenia but she never elaborated what that entails because she refuses to tell anyone about it. I've never seen her have an episode, and for the years I've known her, she's seemed 100% okay. She never mentioned if she's had an episode recently, never mentioned what induces an episode, nothing. All I knew was that she had this. So when we were planning out this trip for months, she seemed 100% on board with everything and nothing seemed uncomfortable for her.

We're not necessarily even doing anything adventurous, but I think she's having a schizophrenic episode for two reasons:

• traveling is stress inducing by itself

• her and her bf have been fighting this entire trip because ever since shes came here, shes been uptight about following cultural etiquette and not liking everything her bf does and acts because it's offensive to Japanese people or something (its small things even like how his posture is)? I've tried to explain to her that we are probably being more respectful than the average gaijin, and that people make mistakes traveling abroad due to cultural differences, but she is extremely keen on trying to appear as respectful as possible.

She seemed okay (except for the fighting parts) for the first week but now we are in a diff prefecture, and I think she has gotten worse. We went to visit our best friends in Japan (just her and me, not her bf cause they were fighting) and she was just a total complete opposite person. Barely talking, no eye contact. I try to play it off to them as “shes just nervous about cultural differences here”, and just carried on normally. But then she went to the bathroom and was gone for 30 mins. I tried searching for her and she was nowhere to be found, and it made me nervous, and I was explaining to our Japanese friends that we may need to ask the police for help. I got her bf involved over text and he told me that she even left her passport even though I asked if she had it before we left and she said yes. She came back but she was speaking in nonsense. I don't know what to do because I've never dealt with schizophrenia.

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