My Dad seems to be frightened of everything.
He's scared to make phone calls in case he fumbles over his words. He won't use the internet. If something breaks and he needs an electrician or a tradesman, he won't just ring one or search for one, he just says he doesn't know what to do. He just sits and waits.
I don't know how to explain it all except he's just stuck, he's anxious, the most simple tasks seem to paralyse him. He's 58 but he's frightened of the GP and of hospitals and he'll say "but what do I say, what are my symptoms, what do I say? Will they think I'm lying??". He thinks that he can hear his previous neighbours shouting abuse through the wall. I say to him "they're dead Dad", he says, "it's a recording of them".
He got a phone call from a wrong number and had an utter episode thinking it was the (dead) neighbour. He also thinks that his phone is bugged and that people have been breaking into his house when he is out. I don't know what to do. Some days I can barely get any sense out of him.