chatters, please take your meds. this comment was from an unrelated subreddit on an unrelated post. i feel bad for these people because obviously they’re going through a lot, but i had to share this with y’all because of just how nuts it is
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r/gangstalking 

Paranoid schizophrenic. My brother has it. This is how he types and thinks, it’s extremely depressing. 

My brother has destroyed parts of our house growing up looking for cameras, trying to barricade our yard at night to prevent “pedophiles” from stealing us (his younger sisters), he has flipped out and yelled at people in public, it’s like his fight or flight kicks in. It’s extremely hard to watch. He’s a nomad now, he doesn’t trust any place we pitch in to pay for, he won’t stay in a sober house, he won’t stay in transition housing. He’s just too paranoid.
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I was living with someone who thought I (and the local PD) was gangstalking them, until a few months ago. My partner and I live with her family (mom, stepdad, sister, and sister’s 20y daughter), and her sister was convinced I was funneling info about her to her dead exes family, it was so stressful. 

It gets scary when you don’t know what someone that paranoid and not in the right mind is going to do, and it got to the point where she got into an altercation with her own daughter. 

After that, she came home from work the next day ready to fight, and it escalated to the police coming for a second day in a row to our house, and eventually that led to her having a protection order against her mom. We hated involving the police, but we had gotten to the point where we hid all the knives in the house, and were looking into eviction prior to the police calls. 

Sorry I just trauma dumped on your comment, and I’m sorry to hear your brother struggles with severe paranoia too, it’s so painful to not be able to do anything really
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Oh don’t be sorry. It’s both traumatic to live with and live around. 

My brother has pulled a knife on me, swatted us, hurt our dogs (he thought they were trying to molest him during an episode, he’s not normally abusive towards animals), etc. We’ve had to have the police remove him from our house, and police have responded to his episodes in public. He was in Boston during the Boston marathon attacks and was arrested as a suspect because slightly brown and bizarre behavior. When I’m with him in public, we always get followed by security because he acts so scary! 

He has put my mom through hell. She’s done everything she can, but that disease cannot be cured and only worsens. Even if he’s on meds, he cycles and thinks he doesn’t need them, goes off and has a bad episode, or self medicates with alcohol or drugs. It’s a never ending cycle of worsening symptoms and scarier events. 

One of my sisters is bad bipolar, and brother’s half siblings also have paranoid schizophrenia, so whatever it is it runs at least partially in my mother’s family and partially in my brother’s dad’s family. My little sister has never been diagnosed with anything aside from anxiety, but she pulled a knife on me too! Love my family but god damn
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