My Sister Had Me Diagnosed with Schizophrenia to Silence Me So She Could Marry Into a Nine-Figure Family : TrueOffMyChest [1977 points, 77% upmarseyd, 989 comments]
You were fired multiple times? What were the 'bizarre' reasons given?
To begin with, how did your sister manage to "plant" symptoms from a direct examination by a psychiatrist? She didn't. You were diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Also there is not a single logical tie-in for any of your allegations.
This post looks a lot like paranoia. A common symptom. You should take your medication.
This is exactly how psychiatric abuse works. It doesn't require someone to 'plant' symptomsโit just requires someone with influence to frame a narrative. If a family member pushes hard enough, calls the right doctors, and ensures that all reports are written from a certain perspective, the diagnosis follows.
Psychiatrists don't diagnose in a vacuum. They rely on patient history, collateral information, and family reports. If that information is manipulated before I even walk into the room, the outcome is already decided.
And conveniently, once the diagnosis is assigned, any attempt to fight back is reframed as 'paranoia' or 'lack of insight.' That's the entire point of how this works. [OP] [-120]
Well to be honest, you sound kind of paranoid here.
Why would your sister need you to receive a psychiatric diagnosis to get engaged?
Having a mentally ill primary relative isn't usually the kind of thing that brings rich boys crawling in.
Edit: I regret interacting with OP and I suggest no one else make my mistake. This is a dumpster fire now.
It wasn't really about making me mentally ill, it was about making sure no one would believe me. If I ever spoke out about what happened, the schizophrenia label would discredit everything I said. Wealthy and powerful families don't just want a perfect image. they want control over the entire narrative. My sister had to prove she could eliminate problems without making a scene. I was scapegoated as the problem. [OP] [-373]
Waking up one day and thinking everyone is treating you differently is almost certainly an early indicator of a problem
If this were just a feeling, I might question it too. But I have text messages, emails, and documentation showing the pattern of job terminations, sudden shifts in how people treated me, and even direct statements from those involved. This wasn't a vague feeling. it was a deliberate, trackable campaign. It's easy to dismiss something when you don't have the full picture. [OP] [-217]
Um, this is not the coherent, persuasive, story that you believe it to be.
Why did she need to do this to you to be engaged?
in their world, image is everything. i didn't fit the narrative they wanted. my sister always tried to compete with me and make herself seem like the better child my entire life. it wasn't just about getting engaged, it was about proving she was worthy of that level of wealth and power. I was in the way. [OP] [-84]
โฆsure. Because this makes you look totally stable and not paranoid
yes, because nothing says normal like a family pushing a false psychiatric diagnosis to erase someone from their life. if questioning that makes me look paranoid, then maybe we should look into why paranoia is used so often to silence people who see through the system [-52]
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Good fricking lord, the responses. The woman is clearly psychotic, and their reaction instead of something more sympathetic is that trademark "erm, on your first point, that is completely illogical." Yeah, no shit r-slur. That's schizophrenia. Every logical hole they've already justified (poorly, but still justified) in their head. If you're going to post in the context of it not being a lolcow, which isn't heckin' wholesome or very honorable Redditor of them, then you maneuver that with care if at all. But absolutely no care is expressed for this woman or trying to approach things with tact or work within the framework she's made. You'd find better support on the Farms, because at least they'd try to convince her that the psychiatrists are actually secret FBI agents that are trying to make her see the nine figure family for reptilians that harvest adrenochrome and her pills can help her see through the disguise.
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Tldr?
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Work with the schizo delusions instead of contradicting them, reframe it so they want to take their meds.
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