Mental Health Support

but I don't know how long she's been calling other friends. My problem isn't that I'm bugged or inconvenienced by talking to her; it's that I worry I'm contributing to her mania by not telling her what she's saying isn't true. Another friend told her she was lying, and it hurt her very much, to no good purpose I could see. Another friend's wife told her he had died (he hadn't) because he didn't know what to say to her.

I'm not a therapist and I don't have any delusion that whether I let her tell me these stories (they involve Beverly Sills, E.L. Doctorow, Keith Richards and John Lithgow, to name a few) is going to make her condition better or worse. I'm just worried that it doesn't help her to feel that someone believes her, that she's clinging to my "belief" to keep these stories true in her mind.

I do love her and wish I could help. A very close mutual friend (my maid of honor) committed suicide at age 28, and my friend's father also killed himself. She has assured me she would never harm herself, but I worry.