If a loved one invents a fictional person, do you go along with it because you don't want them institutionalized?
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I guess that makes sense but personally I would be embaraced having a mom that invented a fictional sibling.
shareIf you love them, yes. Institutions are not for non-violent people who are able to cope within their own reality. If this mother had been put away she most likely would have regressed even farther into a non-reality and her children would have missed her presence and love. The family chose not to institutionalize my aunt who thought she had a child she did not. It did no one any harm, and she was happy with her invented child.
shareYes, I think you do, unless and until the loved one starts saying/doing destructive things like he/she starts saying the invisible person wants them to harm someone or if the loved one talks about harming the invisible person. This did not happen in this movie.
"Do All Things For God's Glory"-1 Corinthians 10:31
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