What kind of condition is this? What’s wrong with this family member?

Question by Confused: What kind of condition is this? What’s wrong with this family member?
My grandmother is in her mid-70′s. She has lived with (or rather, off of) her daughter for about 20 years now and counting. She probably will until the day she dies. She never got her own place/house, doesn’t have a car at all and never kept a stable job for very long all throughout her life. Every car that she got, when it had something minor break on it, she gave it back to the dealer and would get another one. She wasted a lot of money doing things similar to that in life.

Now she’s old, she hears some “guy” voice that torments her day and night with all types of music of some sort, musical instruments, threats against family members by name, odd sounds of grinding machinery and stuff like that. When I was young and in school, she called the bomb squad out to the (empty – he had gone to work) house next door and told them that someone in the “attic next door had said that a bomb would go off in 15 minutes.”

She spends hours with her face in a Horoscope/Astrology book every day. Her common sense and basic knowledge of science in general (e.g. that you can’t logically “hear someone running/walking” in a house that she claims is on a street behind us). She has a delusional mindset about our neighbors…she thinks they are always doing stuff against us (like teaching birds to drop on our car and peck on the side of the house (woodpeckers, of course), for instance. All sorts of bonkers things. She thinks the neighbors have no heat/air, running water or bathroom, so they are “using the bathroom in the yard” according to her (smell hallucinations).

Her nights are spent pacing the floor, looking out of the window and basically doing everything but going to bed. She “talks” to the said guy voice that she hears, disturbing other family members. Everything has a conspiracy theory…she won’t get help from doctors because she makes up lies about them. She won’t take any meds they give her or halves them so that their effect is diminished so much that it’s like she never took them at all.

She envies even her own family members, has expressed hatred for her own grandchildren by not wanting to see them, and basically hates anyone who accomplishes anything in life. She made a lot of promises to other family members about buying land, getting a house, etc. decades ago. They actually did that stuff and she hates them for it. She had the same life situations and possibilities…she didn’t act on them. Now she’s old and miserable, but what’s causing these mental issues? It’s like she can’t even take care of herself anymore. She goes to the bathroom and will be sitting on the toilet with the door propped halfway open and sometimes the light off…so she gets “walked in on” a lot by family, which is sick. She does that in public bathrooms, too. Everything she hears on the news…she feels the need to comment on in a negative way. Every person is bashed daily and every race is slandered…it’s a never-ending thing with her. She has a particular hatred for China, Asia, Africa and people with “AIDS”. Her mind has turned perverted to the point where she lies and says that even (real) women who have kids are really “gay men dressed up like women”. She thinks someone is always out to get family members, neighbors are following us when we go places in the car, etc.

It’s just really difficult to live with. I wouldn’t be asking on here if we could physically get her help, of course. She is “there” enough to refuse the help, and most doctors can’t do anything with that situation. On top of that stuff, for a couple of decades, she has had these heavy shake tremors to the point where she can barely hold onto a plate or glass or whatever. So she’s nervous all of the time and about to fly to pieces at the smallest little things. I know she probably gets frustrated with that, but she argues with my family all of the time and has been against my family that has tried to help her time and time again. I don’t want to sound like we’re not compassionate towards her or anything…we do not treat her in a mean way. But it is very frustrating and sometimes there are family squabbles about all of this nonsense that she comes up with and believes is completely real.
gazeygoo- obviously you didn’t read the part about her not wanting to see any doctors or take any meds because she flips out about them.
gazeygoo- obviously you didn’t read the part about her not wanting to see any doctors or take any meds because she flips out about them.

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Answer by gazeygoo
Obviously she needs to be evaluated, make an appointment with the doc for crying out loud.

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