To feel unsettled by neighbours strange behaviour

[Goldbear94]

I live above a woman in her 20's, we haven't had the greatest of neighbourly relations as she objects to my autistic sons noise and I object to her smoking weed under my open windows and blasting music in the middle of the night (I've nothing against weed smokers fwiw, just don't do it under my open windows or inside communal areas of a shared building). She had a drug dealing boyfriend living there but he has now gone to prison, I think.

Anyway.

For the past 6 weeks or so she has been behaving strangely. Her young son isn't there anymore and instead of blasting music at all hours she's blasting out religious preaching, some of which sounds quite extreme. I suspect she's having some sort of mental ill health episode as she wasn't playing that stuff before and is the furthest thing from a church goer.

I'm feeling a bit unnerved as I'm already wary of her and I'm in here alone with my DC much of the time.

AIBU and a bit of a wuss? Would this bother you?

Are you sure that her young son isn’t in there?

Fairly sure. I haven't seen or heard him in weeks and I know from prior that he spends a lot of time at grandparents.

If my DC made any noise after 7pm she'd go biserk on account of her DS being in bed, so I can't see her carrying on like this all through the night with her child in there.

The noise would bother me.

I don't care if she's blasting music, religious teachings or tooting 3 blind mice on a recorder.

It'd drive me mad and I'd be contacting the council or her landlord (if she has one) about it.

How old is her DS?

Her DS is upper primary age

I haven't a clue who her landlord is but I know she rents, we both do, albeit from different people.

Just wondering if he’s actually okay?

Who?

The DS

The neighbour's son I think the PP means?

Thanks 👍🏻

Blasting any music in the manner you’ve described is a red flag for psychosis. Blasting religious music / speeches is a major red flag for religious psychosis. You can contact 111 to let them know your concerns and if they think it warrants an investigation they will send paramedics to do an assessment

Absolutely this. I have BP1 and have had psychotic episodes. One of the worst ones was when I saw religious writing on the walls being written in front of me. Totally convinced god was trying to contact me directly. I was also on about contacting our local vicar as I had a “message” for him from god. I was very very unwell. Luckily it was noticed by family and I got treatment etc. I agree with the contacting 111, she may be unaware she’s poorly (if she is).

Religious psychosis is exactly what I was thinking and that perhaps the loud volume is to drown out voices? I will see how to go about raising a concern. History aside I don't wish her any ill will.

That sounds terrifying @Iloveburgerswaymorethanishould I'm so sorry you went through that.

Hi you can do an anonymous report to children or adult social care online and they can do a welfare check. Search for the link on your local council’s website.

It does sound worrying. Could you ring 101 and speak to the police? If you tell them you're worried that she's having a mental health crisis, they could do a welfare check?