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.