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My grandmother is 78 yrs old & going crazy. (please read)
I think she has some type of mental disorder but she will not go to the doctor and she doesn't think that she's crazy. She wants nobody to help her. She's scared to stay by herself because she thinks that her whole neighborhood is out to get her. Her house is falling apart, she has junk everywhere she's a hoarder. Her roof has holes in it and her walls are literally splitting apart at the corners. She refuses to get someone to look at her house cause she knows it will be condemned. She thinks that her neighbors are climbing on her roof and getting into her basement. She thinks that they are throwing heat and hydrochloric acid at her and her house.
She has No type of air conditioning and she refuses to leave her house. It REALLY so hot and she sweats a lot all she has is fans that blow hot air. She thinks her neighbors are trying to KILL her because she thinks they are throwing chemicals on her and her house and they are messing with the weather. She gets so scared that she wants somebody to stay with her. But her house is not safe or comfortable for someone to live in. She wants me to move in but I've stayed a couple of nights cause she was scared. Her electricity doesn't work in most rooms, she has plumbing problems and she doesn't want to leave her house. She thinks her neighbors stay up 24/7 with machines blowing over her house to tear it down and make it hot. She keeps a gun laying around and all she does it talk about how her neighbors are trying to destroy her house and kill her.
She has loads of trash and junk ALL over her house, she thinks they're antiques. She says her neighbors are sneaking in her house when she's not there. Her front and back doors to her house are raggedy and easy to get in. No one is going in her house! She thinks people are in her basement. She has so much junk in her house you can barely walk in some places.
She constantly sprays water inside and outside her house and its tearing her house aopart because she thinks it stops her crazy neighbors. She's always pointing broke remotes around the house. She thinks that people can see her through her TV. She thinks her neighbors put cameras in her house and they watch her. She also thinks they are watching her through the TV.
I don't know what to do about my grandma. She wants me to live with her and I can't. I have to go to school and stuff. She talks about her neighbors 24/7 and if you don't agree with her she will get angry and say she's not crazy. If she does see a doctor about this she will not take medicine. I don't want for her to have to live in a nursing home when she gets older & I know her house is going to get condemned. She throws trash on her walls and floors
I think she's going to get crazier when she gets older. My whole family thinks she's crazy. I just can't explain it all. What do we do about her?
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That is some serious situation you've got there. I hope you'll be able to fix it before it worsens. Your grandma, based on your story, appears to be unstable. Have you considered long term care for her as a solution? It's not cheap, yes, but at least it gets the job done. Safety, companionship, and food to be prepared by professionals. It's basically everything she needs to have.
If you want, I can suggest www.completelongtermcare.com as an option.
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I'm sorry about what's happening. I know how scary and sad it is to have something like this happen to someone you love.
It does sound like paranoia, or schizophrenia. It could be any number of things, but those are my best guesses. Luckily, there is medication for such things.
I would get into contact with her doctor (or have your parents do it) and see what her options are. They may be able to hospitalize her for a while, until the medication (which they'll force her to take in the hospital) begins to work. I know it seems kind of mean but it may be the best option.
Good luck!
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Honey, you can not help her by going to live with her. It scares me that your parents are not doing something about her situation. She sounds like she has either Schizophrenia or Dementia. With Alzheimers, she would get to a point of not knowing who you are. My brother had schizophrenia and my old landlady had dementia. So I know what those conditions sound like and look like. What you have described in detail sounds like that.
Have your parents tried to get local authorities in to remove her? The way she is living is a hazard to her own health. If no one intervenes soon, she will die from heat, or cold or the roof falling on her to crush her, rats and mice infesting the place and getting sick from their feces. Or she will die of malnutrition since she has hardly any working electric outlets. In fact, if the wiring is so old that most are no longer working, it just takes an old broken wire inside a wall to spark and cause a fire that burns the place down with her inside it. Even if your parents don;t have the ability to take her in, they need to at least let authorities know. I'd start with calling the local hospital and asking there where to call who to contact to remove her and condemn the house. Where they will take her if she doesn't have any money, i do not know but she can't stay there.
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