Not strictly AIBU but I cannot think of anywhere to put this bar chat.
DH works with a guy who is married to a woman, in his own words, is "bonkers". I have bad depression, have been suicidal in the past etc. so have a little (personal) knowledge of mental health so I don't like to say she is loopy etc. but I am not sure she is depressed, so am thinking she may be suffereing maybe something more severe?
Anyway, he tells DH of things she does, all weird but not desperatly awful - lots of not letting him to go work, running out of the house before he leaves and hiding behind walls, only lets her 3 uder 4s (I have 2 under 4) have one toy at a time (OK, not terribly awful but it's part of a bigger picture), obsessivly cleans the house - skirting boards twice a day, makes her H clean the shower fully after himself at 5.30am, one DC weed on the carpet slightly and she replaced the whole thing, his wages goes directly to his account and she spends it all (again nothing terrible terrible) but the other day she rang him at work (she does 8+ times a day) and just screamed and screamed down the phone. Also threatened to kill herself, so her H told my H he was taking the rest of the week off as she was going to get sectioned. Apparently it was just day time, for the rest of that week, but she was still on FB. Turns out she had gone to GP and asked to be sectioned but he said it was likely to be a thyroid problem. I don't know if she is just saying that to her H, she clearly , to me, has some sort of mental health issues.
That's just abit of background info, the main hing is she told her H, when one of the children was crying, calmly, "it would be so easy to break one of their necks, wouldn't it?". Not in the heat of the moment, more cold and calculating. He said she has said alot worse, but my H didn't want to know. I feel I can't just sit back, I honestly get creeped out by her and that's nothing against people with mental health issues, she just gets all my alarm bells ringing. I guess I should have name changed, if she is on here it's very obvious who I am but as I said, I can't get it all out of my head.
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Would you call Social Services over this?
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InaneHouseholdObject · 13/10/2009 12:52
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