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She's 46 years old, and for the last almost 3 years, she's been hacked on WhatsApp since 2024 and believes that my dad and I have also been hacked and spied on in our apartment by a neighbor next door and an ex friend of hers from Turkey, through vents, ceiling fans, light fixtures and empty smoke detector sockets. She ended up taping those areas up and set up a white noise machine in the bathroom. And recently, she told me that we were being broadcasted on TVs in the another country and people were watching us in our most private, vulnerable moments. And there were times that she got into arguments with Dad, but he doesn't believe her. And she tried talking to our other neighbors about it, but then believes that they were lying or gaslighting her when they disagreed with what she said.
Now for the record, I highly doubt any of this is true, as all my devices seem to work fine and it's not physically possible to spy on someone through those said areas. But there's no way to prove this to her as she's just rather stubborn about it, there's no point in arguing with her as she'll just get angrier and fight back, and I'm getting kinda scared about whether any of this is true or not. I mean, I know she's been suffering from various medical conditions, been mentally unstable, plus if I remember correctly, she did mention that she had a brain tumor that's pressing on the part that produces dopamine few years back, so this could be the cause. But we'd also need someone to come check our apartment just to confirm this.
I really need to get her to seek a neurologist or psychologist to get her diagnosed. I can't talk to any of her doctors as I don't have their contact info, so the least I can do right now is to just pray. And for the record, I'm 27.
Do you live close to her? So this is where arguing will get you no where when my dad first started getting dementia he swore up and down that my mom was cheating on him with the neighbor and he would get so mad he would try to get physical. So I picked lets find a way to validate his concern and still let him keep some dignity. You can buy a detector and run it through the house its a little handheld radio looking device that picks up on other feeds and if there is one it will blink red. Kinda like the socket testers but you can run it through the whole house. Do it once with her and then give her the device and she can run it whenever she feels like its happening shoot get her a lil notebook and she can make notes per day that may stop some of her panic behavior. Also and this was weird when I first heard it but it has help us with my dad when he feels confused or wants to know something if you can install Alexa or Siri or Google whatever at the house for her she can ask them questions all-day no matter what the topic! For the underlying cause of this there could be several things starting with the brain pressure if she acts confused or lost or her balance seems off take her to an ER and ask them to check her labs. She could also be dehydrated or be exposed to too much heat. She could also have a UTI or some other infection. This could all lead to the symptoms you are describing. Whatever you do remember to just step away when it gets to be too much or when something needs time to calm down. Always listen to your gut instinct and enjoy being 27 as much as you can!
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