I’ve had this problem for as long as I could remember, and the only people I’m comfortable talking about it with is my family.
Ever since I was old enough to understand the difference between a normal person and a mentally Ill person, I’ve noticed something about my grandmother. She is slowly losing her mind, and I came to ask if anyone else has experienced this with a family member, and how to help deal with it.
As she loses her mind, I’m losing my patience. I lived with her, my grandfather, my uncle, and my parents up until last year, and I noticed her getting worse and worse.
Some of the things she does is as follows:
- She forgets things that were said earlier in the conversation, making her loop every conversation back on itself.
- She asks the same question 2-3 times in five minutes, even if you give her an answer each time.
- She will bring over my mail to my house (I still have it delivered at her house because I live in an apartment complex) at least once a week, even though I tell her not too.
- When I was a teenager, she still treated me like a little kid, despite her still knowing my age.
- She has to text me every day to make sure I’m all right.
6?. She can’t cook. (That’s just me complaining, it has nothing to do with her mental illness)
- When she retired, she had no money saved up, and lives off of social security and nothing else.
- She is to ‘good’ to get food stamps, even though she totally could.
- She has to but into every conversation.
- She wants to keep renovating her house as much as she can, even though she can’t afford it.
I could easily list more, but I don’t want this thread to be too long. Does anyone else know what I’m talking about.