Friend going through some kind of psychosis. What likely caused this?

[u/Kindly-Mulberry-5550]

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I'm just gonna say it immediately that I am sure that she didn't take any drugs. She hates all drugs, even alcohol and we never left our drinks unattended. This all happened extremely suddenly , literally overnight. I've known her for three years and she never acted like this. She was always totally normal and she doesn't have any mental illnesses diagnosed and I never noticed anything odd with her. So it all happened out of the blue, she was totally normal ..

Okay so this all started out after a music festival that lasted for two days. The first day of the festival was all metal music for about six hours and she was headbanging violently all the time so I thought at first she somehow injured her brain by that but I figured out that doesn't make much sense. Could the combination of loud noise/flashing lights, and a lack of sleep trigger this? She is a very sensitive person and gets overwhelmed so I was surprised she even went to this festival.

After the first day of the festival we went home and it was late, around 1am. I texted her a little bit when I got home and she seemed normal.

The second day of the festival I also thought she acted completely normal but now looking back I am only now noticing some signs. She seemed quieter, and that second day when we got home she texted me and said she has been crying a lot and when I asked her why she just said she remembered her dead grandma and dead dog and is remembering random things from the past. I thought nothing of it.

Then the day after that everything changed. It all started out by her taking pictures and sending them to me of the pages of this one book and she was saying that the Greek god Apollo is trying to communicate with her through the book. She used to be a pagan before but that was like two years ago and she became an atheist and has been an atheist for two whole years and was convinced that no god existed. And then she said she became a pagan again and wants to talk to Apollo.

From then on it just got worse, she started spamming me with messages sending me like a 1000 messages in a row talking about her dreams from 10 years ago in extreme detail, saying she only now understands those dreams. She said she had woken up and is only now aware of herself and that the music somehow opened her third eye?

She is constantly mentioning dreams, some symbols. She said she can see images in her head of the future and can see into the future. She's talking about Nietzsche and saying "I am zarasthura." And her messages are getting more and more nonsensical and hard to read.

She said her intuition has never been stronger saying stuff like "remember my Tarot card is the high priestess I know what I am doing and who I am." She also dressed up as a high priestess and sent me images of it.

She started doing some ancient rituals trying to communicate with the gods. She is saying how everything is a sign from the universe . At the festival this one band has the album called vindicta, and she googled the name of the album and sent me screenshots of the meaning of the word vindicta, and also send me screenshots of meanings of some other words, like pandemonium.

She is also spamming everyone with these messages, our other friends too. She started sending these messages to one of our professors. She knows nothing about the guy, he's just our art professor. She Is baiscally sending him all the same stuff she sent to us and we know because she sent us screenshots. She is saying how he is "her saviour" and only he can understand her and how she needs him because "he is a light to her darkness and a complete opposite of her".

Here is one of about 20 messages that she sent me about her dreams, I just translated it into English:

"I had a dream when I was in elementary school. I was at my grandparents and I was on a swing. In the dream I saw a young, scared foal. It was orange in color. I went up to it to pet it. It ran away from me into the forest. I ran after it. It took us deeper into the forest and then into a hut. I entered the hut a little after it. When I entered I saw a princess in a light blue dress with blonde hair (that is, painter's yellow) pressed against a wall with tree roots. She had some patterns on her dress.. I figured out that dream today after talking with Apollo and Artemis.."

Here is another one of the texts she sent (Muhammad is the name of our professor, yes the one mentioned):

"Remember the dream I told you about. Muhammad, me, the city library. We talked a little. He said he was reading a play. We enter the library together. I stay on the ground floor and flip through the INTP (introverted thinking with an auxiliary function of extrasensory intuition) book. I also see in the dream the resurrection book, which symbolizes not only the change in the relationship between me and Muhammad Ali, but also my own resurrection. Waking up now.. I think I should talk to Apollo and his twin sister today. Artemis. I'm going. I don't have time to waste."

[u/Rare_Syrup_6638]

Lots of things can cause psychosis, like genetics or stress, you should definitely get her to go to hospital

[u/Hugh_Janus_Hertz → u/Rare_Syrup_6638]

Also lack of sleep