Psycho family members

[EHKOS]

My mom had a few psychotic episodes. She would get paranoid about everything and twist reality. When it gets really bad she sees thinks the docs in the psych ward are Jesus. But I love her, and there's only ever been three recorded incidents. But the last time was prertty crazy. She called the cops on me because she thought I was pyramid head from Silent Hill. Then she took off for four days until she wound up at a safehouse in the YWCA. They sent her to the hospital and now she's better. Thank God.

My dad may be a sociopath, but I've learned to just take him at face value, and try to love him.

My Aunt is a crazy cat lady, it really reeks in her mobile home from all the cat pee.

My other aunt was severely molested as a child, and married into my family. She has a heart of gold when she's lucid, but she's pretty unstable. She's really sweet though, like Ned Flanders accommodating. Although just last week we think her dad found her, someone chopped down a cherry tree she had been growing and shoved it in their mailbox.

Then my dad's side is filled with incest, and at one point everyone had joined a crazy cult. My dad left young when they wanted him to marry his cousin. His father was shit and drank until he died young of cancer because he wouldn't go see a doctor.


...Yeah my family is fucked up.

 

[TehCookie]

My mom has depression, but thankfully she is responsible and knows how to manage it. Before she got her happy pills she said her life was so terrible there was no way the rest of us could be happy with her around and wanted to murder all of us. Still love her dearly.

My brother takes after my mom, but isn't a responsible adult. He's a hardcore drug user, an alcoholic, a NEET (not in education, employment or training, it's a Japanese term). Between heroin and not taking his medical drugs as prescribed he's attempted suicide several times. Though the part that annoys me the most is how filthy he is.

Whenever he uses the toilet he misses the entire toilet and goes on the floor. He leaves food in his room til it's moldy and I can't tell if the smoke is from his cigarettes or just spore clouds. The floor is covered with unknown substances and is sticky, and there was a waterbottle of pee in the corner. Since he can't make it in a toilet I fear to think how much is outside the bottle. When he's angry he randomly punches things and has several holes in his wall, and he almost burnt the house down when he passed out smoking and burnt a section of his carpet. It's inhuman! I have no idea how my parents put up with him.

 

[Neonbob]

My father in law, who we unfortunately rent from, is a "recovering" alcoholic, gambling addict, and past drug user. We have no idea if he is still up to these things because he disappears for most of the day after he gets off work, shows up at 10pm, and goes to bed. When he doesn't go to bed, he usually devolves into accusing my brother in law of sleeping with my mother in law. This happens maybe once a week, and is never pleasant. On the occasions he gets out of control, he refuses to listen to reason, and is only containable. He's had the cops called on him once, after making physical threats against the BIL, and only avoided jail because if he doesn't bring any money in, the house gets foreclosed on.
Because of his gambling issues, we have to stop at his work every Friday to make sure he hands over at least $300 of his check so that the electric, mortgage, and other bills can actually be paid. He has blown $500+ in a single night before, because we were unable to make it to his work before he disappeared.

My sister in law is a habitually lying, hypochondriatic, paranoid fuckwit who insists on egging on her father, usually resulting in a blowup at home. This ***** has caused several this year alone, and we are still expected by this backwoods family to treat her well. Because she's family. On top of that, she's still friends with my wife's ex, who is my daughter's biological father. He's had nothing to do with her for the past 7 months, and treats her like shit every time he sees her, but "He's her father!" I swear, nearly the whole side with the father in law could be wiped out and the world would be such a better place.

 

[Amir Kondori]

I almost stormed out of my Dad's house last week because the ass pissed me off.

Summary: I've wanted to be a game designer for the past 6 years, even with poor math skills. Set my self up for a school with good program, guy at the game design major tells me "it isn't going to happen". So a month before school starts I switched colleges and am probably going for a business or history major. My Dad gave me a lecture on how it was just the guy's "opinion" and how I should "go for my dream". I pretty much said I didn't want to be 22, a college dropout, living with my mother, working a dead end job, and owing 80k. I rather go a safe easy way. He claims he lives a life of regret because he didn't follow his dreams, yet I never have heard him complain about his job once in the 10 years he has worked there, and how he was "let down" by me and angry at my mother for agreeing with me. Downright pissed me off.

I feel in a couple of years I may be just like King Michael and complete cut my Dad out of my life. Guy is a greedy, selfish, asshole that only cares about himself. Bastard will pay for an airline ticket for his new wife and her daughter but won't give his own son gas money after he just turned 16 with no job. He filled my tank and told me "I better have a job by the time it is empty." I understand self reliance, but come on! Jobs just don't fall out of the damn sky, especially for a unskilled 16 year old. The worst thing is, the guy makes over 6 figures so he could easily give me gas money until I got a job but nope, better find a job in a month or no driving.

If you can't tell I kinda just vented a little about my father, maybe not psycho but annoying, asshole, and selfish come to mind. Man, I feel good right now!

Um, you are made because your dad wants you to follow your dream of the last 6 years and not be dissuaded by one person telling you its not going to happen and not giving you endless gas money? Really? Sounds like a pretty stand up guy to me.

Didn't want endless gas money, I just wanted him to at least help me until I found a job. The first day I had my license I applied to about five or so places in the nearest town, I called all of those places to follow up, not a single interview. So I wanted a job, I just didn't know how long it was going to take.

I won't go into further detail for the first issue, little to personal family issues.

I certainly don't know what goes on in your household so I won't pretend to know what his motivations are but I remember at your age being pretty resentful of my dad for pushing me to accomplish things and do well but now looking back I see I was very lucky, especially when I saw some of my friends who didn't have a father or a father who didn't really care how well they did. I really have to agree with his advice as well, if you really feel passionately about game design don't let this guy scare you away. That is his job, making sure people really know what they are getting into so they just don't think they are going to sit in a room coming up cool ideas for games, but if you really feel passionately about it is worth a few years of your life finding out if you have any talent. I know when one is young we feel like we don't want to waste any time at all on something that might not pan out but the more years go buy the more you realize that many things in your life won't pan out the way you intended and so you might as well really pursue the things that interest you.

Good luck with your job hunt and future schooling. Fast food is usually always hiring.

 

[Amir Kondori]

My father in law, who we unfortunately rent from, is a "recovering" alcoholic, gambling addict, and past drug user. We have no idea if he is still up to these things because he disappears for most of the day after he gets off work, shows up at 10pm, and goes to bed. When he doesn't go to bed, he usually devolves into accusing my brother in law of sleeping with my mother in law. This happens maybe once a week, and is never pleasant. On the occasions he gets out of control, he refuses to listen to reason, and is only containable. He's had the cops called on him once, after making physical threats against the BIL, and only avoided jail because if he doesn't bring any money in, the house gets foreclosed on.
Because of his gambling issues, we have to stop at his work every Friday to make sure he hands over at least $300 of his check so that the electric, mortgage, and other bills can actually be paid. He has blown $500+ in a single night before, because we were unable to make it to his work before he disappeared.

My sister in law is a habitually lying, hypochondriatic, paranoid fuckwit who insists on egging on her father, usually resulting in a blowup at home. This ***** has caused several this year alone, and we are still expected by this backwoods family to treat her well. Because she's family. On top of that, she's still friends with my wife's ex, who is my daughter's biological father. He's had nothing to do with her for the past 7 months, and treats her like shit every time he sees her, but "He's her father!" I swear, nearly the whole side with the father in law could be wiped out and the world would be such a better place.

Please do yourself a favor and move out of that house. You probably don't realize but he has you wrapped ALL up in his business. I have personal experience with this kind of thing and the only thing you can do is cut the person out until they change their worst behaviors. That means moving out and not being a part of his bullshit. I know times are tough and we don't always have the financial freedom to do everything we want to but please, do something, work more hours, get a higher paying job, get roommates, anything to get out of that terrible situation.

You will feel so free afterwards. You will let go of stress you didn't even realize you were carrying with you, 24/7, no matter what. It can be scary but think about it, make a plan, then execute. You'll thank yourself.

 

[Fox12]

Ever had the one or two psychos in your family? The ones where you wish could forever disappear because of what they've done to you or anyone else?

For me, I'm unfortunately now related to this complete utter psychotic ***** my uncle married a few months ago. They met about 5 years ago, and dated off and on until my uncle gets her pregnant. Now before she got pregnant my family and I heard many stories of what she did, like going to jail a couple times, getting arrested for assaulting her sister, and not to mention the amount of abuse she STILL does to my uncle; we're pretty sure she has severe mental issues.
He finally left her and their son, and went to marry this extremely nice woman who I was happy to have as an aunt. Since life hates my family he divorced her about 5 months later to go back with psycho *****. On top with getting married to psycho *****, he gets her pregnant AGAIN, and now have 2 sons. They are currently trying to get a daughter :I
no, NO, sorry SHE'S trying to get a daughter.
So i'm permanently bound to this lady because of my new cousins.

Spoiler

I actually like my cousins but I'm afraid they'll inherit their mother's mental issues.

The worse thing this woman is doing now is she's viciously harassing the woman my uncle married for a short time, for no apparent reason. Emails, phone calls, getting friends to harass her and now psycho ***** put the woman's personal info on a website called 'shesahomewreck', cruelly mocking her with exaggerated and false info. Again, the woman has done nothing to incite this insanity.
I foresee massive amounts of legal action against psycho ***** and i will gladly cheer on.

So, how's your family situations?

Jeeze, I'm sorry man. I know a thing or two about psycho family members.

I had a racist (step) grandfather who beat my dad growing up. My grandma was a fine woman, but she overlooked my granddads behavior. He passed away, leaving my grandma with his debt, at which point his sons from another marriage sued her for everything she own less than a week after her husband died. They also refused to pay for their fathers burial, so my dad stepped up and paid for the burial of the man who beat him as a kid. My grandma died a few weeks later. Now they're suing the estate for anything they can get their hands on. They don't seem to understand that she didn't have anything other than debt, so everyone's losing money. Now they're accusing us of stealing a tractor (we live in a suburb), and won't stop harassing my great grandfather (who just buried his daughter). They can't seem to understand that there's nothing left for them to inherit because what little money wasn't used to pay off the debt went to the lawyers.

What I'm saying is, people are stupid.

 

[scorptatious]

Well, my family isn't that bad for the most part. Although it's not perfect.

First off, there's my autistic twin brother. He can be down right annoying most of the time. He talks about almost nothing but video games, movies, tv shows, ect. I mean I love that stuff too, but I don't want to talk about it all the time.

He also gets agitated very easily. Especially when things aren't going his way. He would raise his voice, whine, demand stuff, ect.

He also just comes off as really stupid most of the time. He asks very obvious questions, and he doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes as he would often act rudely towards my mom and dad, get punished for it, and he would just do it again.

One of the things that irritates me the most about him is that he likes to brag about how he has a job. Even though that job is mostly tagging along with my dad while he's doing business. It irritates me because 1. It's not a real job and 2. He knows that I don't have a job.

I guess that's just me not being able to swallow my pride, as his "job" is pretty much the only thing that gives him any sense of self-worth. It still gets under my skin though.

Next up is my brother-in-law. Real douchebag that guy was. He would either lie about what kind of job he has or not tell anyone at all. Hell, I don't think even my sister knew what he does. And that's shady as fuck.

Back in the day, he and I both used to play WoW. At the time, I was playing a Tauren Warrior and I wanted to purchase a mount so I can actually keep up with other players in the guild I was in. But they were really expensive at the time, and I couldn't afford them due to the cost of repairing armor.

So, I told my brother in law about this and he offered me gold to buy a mount. As I was on my way to meet him in game, he asked me how much gold I made in a day. I told him around 2-5 gold I think, and then he said that I didn't need his help. i.e., he wasn't going to give me the gold he promised me.

Then, one time I was visiting them at Disneyland along with my parents and brother. At the time, I wasn't really all that excited about hanging out with my family again and I sorta wanted to hang out with my new friends at college. My brother-in-law noticed that I wasn't happy with everyone and lectured me about how he was always happy to be with his mom and told me "I thought you were a better man than that".

I didn't say anything, but at that point I kinda wanted to tell him to fuck off. It's not my fault that I was getting tired of having to be around my family 24/7 and wanting to go and hang out with other people my age like a fucking normal person my age would do.

*sigh* Sorry, went off on a tangent there.

So anyway, my sister finally got fed up with him and they're in the process of splitting up if they haven't already done so now.

If there's one positive thing I could say about him is that he and my sister had two of the best nephews I could ask for. Those boys are amazing.

 

[Dan Steele]

I almost stormed out of my Dad's house last week because the ass pissed me off.

Summary: I've wanted to be a game designer for the past 6 years, even with poor math skills. Set my self up for a school with good program, guy at the game design major tells me "it isn't going to happen". So a month before school starts I switched colleges and am probably going for a business or history major. My Dad gave me a lecture on how it was just the guy's "opinion" and how I should "go for my dream". I pretty much said I didn't want to be 22, a college dropout, living with my mother, working a dead end job, and owing 80k. I rather go a safe easy way. He claims he lives a life of regret because he didn't follow his dreams, yet I never have heard him complain about his job once in the 10 years he has worked there, and how he was "let down" by me and angry at my mother for agreeing with me. Downright pissed me off.

I feel in a couple of years I may be just like King Michael and complete cut my Dad out of my life. Guy is a greedy, selfish, asshole that only cares about himself. Bastard will pay for an airline ticket for his new wife and her daughter but won't give his own son gas money after he just turned 16 with no job. He filled my tank and told me "I better have a job by the time it is empty." I understand self reliance, but come on! Jobs just don't fall out of the damn sky, especially for a unskilled 16 year old. The worst thing is, the guy makes over 6 figures so he could easily give me gas money until I got a job but nope, better find a job in a month or no driving.

If you can't tell I kinda just vented a little about my father, maybe not psycho but annoying, asshole, and selfish come to mind. Man, I feel good right now!

Become a game designer my friend, It will seem intimidating and challenging at first, but game design isn't so much about math knowledge as it is dedication. I can only use math at a middle school level and I am still a pretty decent 3D modeler. Practice my friend, if you are 16 when you were turned down for game designer you were probably a little young. Just keep trying and you will do fine.

 

[Estranged180]

Ha my parents left me with 3 psychotic sisters who all act like totally twats and I never really talk to them anymore. Think I need to see a psychiatrist.

You don't need a psychiatrist. You need to live your life.

Myself, I have 2 insane sisters that literally changed my father's will to match what they wanted out of it, leaving me completely out of his will. This didn't matter to me too much, I still got what I needed at the time (estate sale proceeds in the amount of $126,900). What mattered to me was his funeral, which I was not allowed to attend. I was told that there wasn't going to be one, and knowing my father, that would have made complete sense. It wasn't until the day my mother died that I found out he had a funeral and that if I had showed up at the funeral, I would have been escorted out by the Nassau County police.

To top that off, as my mother lay upon her deathbed, my idiot stepfather decided to constantly ***** about how he was going to pay for her funeral, to which she told him to sell the 'vette. After I told him to stfu, I was escorted out of the hospital, and was not allowed to attend her funeral either. As it turned out, the 'next of kin' makes the 'guest list' for the funeral, and I weren't on it. I was also asked to pay for the entire funeral by the same idiot.

I don't speak to any of them anymore... so no, you don't need a psychiatrist, you need to live your life. Living your life well is the best revenge you can have.

 

[Angie7F]

My grandfather was domestically violent, gambles, drinks and all the other crazy stuff.
My uncle is a stone cold elitist.
So basically both sides of my family are crazy.

 

[Reeve]

If it's a serious problem then contact the authorities...

OT: I've heard that someone in my family went insane and believed himself to be both Al Capone and Jesus.

 

[Ix Rebound]

In the most recent new years eve we got into a gang fight with the lebanese, by virtue of them being lebanese. They wanted to fight us, by virtue of us being a Turkish and Syrian mix.
So, NYE was a 9v13 street fight...

Out of curiosity, who won?

OT: I don't have "psycho" family members per say.. But some of my older grandparents and relatives are going slightly insane. Granddads taken his motorized scooter out onto the roads and has expressed an interest in climbing MT Everest (he is 87 and not in great shape)

Apart from that the only weird things that I can remember is my parents and uncles and aunts getting in a massive fight about who took the flowers with them after my grandmas funeral. As well as getting curb stomped by my 5 year old cousin who I was play fighting, after which he started singing that "I want to be a real girl" song from "Mulan" (MY cousin is a boy btw)

 

[GrimTuesday]

I don't really have anyone in my life who are actually crazy (not literally anyway) because my mother (no one on my dad's side of the family seems to have any issues) made a point of not including those people in her life, and by extension my life as well.

My mom's mother (I don't call her my grandmother because I never met her before she died a couple of years ago, and I don't believe that just because we share blood she had a right to be my grandmother) was a crazy person. I don't know exactly what her deal was because as I said, I never met her, but from what I understand, she had some serious issues possibly including schizophrenia and suffering from paranoid delusions. My mom had my oldest brother when she was 17, and her mother actually attempted to kidnap him and go into hiding. She had a lot of influence over my mother's brother and sister as well, so they're not in my life either.

My Dad's side of the family isn't literally crazy, but they are a bunch of religious zealots. They are members of the Old Apostolic Lutheran (that's Firstborn Laestadianism for the Finns) branch of Laestadianism. As I said, not literally crazy, but their whole lives revolve around the church and how the church says they must live their lives, and to me that's pretty crazy.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

Pretty much the entirety of my dad's side of the family, with the sole exception of my grandfather. He's a really nice guy, a hard worker, and generally great to be around. My grandmother, meanwhile, is basically Joan Crawford. Petty, passive-aggressive, and just loves to play the victim. Stopped talking to my great-grandmother because she sold a piece of land that the rest of the family had their eye on for some half-baked farming venture, and continued refusing to speak to her on the woman's goddamn deathbed. My dad, unfortunately, takes after her. Same passive-aggressive, "everything has to be somebody's fault but it can never EVER be mine" attitude, although he's also prone to brief outbursts of screaming and ranting, or going the exact opposite and cutting off all human interaction for days at a time. My mother and I are positive he's bipolar, but he's got some irrational hatred for the entire field of psychiatry, so he refuses to get checked out. His brother is a functional alcoholic and seems to be depressed a lot of the time, although I give him props for not taking it out on others like the rest of the family, and he seems to have a healthier home life than a lot of us. Finally, there's a whole horde of cousins, great-aunts, half-uncles and such who are, with a disturbing level of consistency, gratingly extroverted.

...

Okay, so I'm occasionally petty too. What of it?

 

[Guffe]

I belong to that rare species who doesn't have trouble with relatives.
Small arguments now and then but that's just normal, otherwise I get along well with everyone.

 

[Ren_Li]

My parents treated me so badly I have post traumatic stress disorder from it. Nightmares, panic attacks, flashbacks where it feels like I'm "back there", inability to function basically. There's no one thing I can point to- although the sexual abuse from my stepfather, being locked out of the house overnight a couple of times, and not being allowed access to electronics- at one point, INCLUDING a light bulb, all sounds pretty bad, that's only the stuff I can put in brief. Point is: PTSD.
Treated my older brother okay-ish though. I mean, not great, but when I was being punished for not putting my books away right, my brother was getting a slap on the wrist for being brought home in a police car.

We know why now, although at the time I assumed something was wrong with me (partly because they constantly hammered that message into me.) The thing that was "wrong" with me? I was born female. I transitioned to male about six years ago, and once they accepted that it wasn't "just a phase", their treatment of me underwent a radical shift.

They abused me so badly that, after living away from home for over ten years, I still have PTSD. I still have panic attacks from noises outside my room. And I'm unable to leave my bedroom when my housemates are home and awake because I'm paralised with fear. All of that because I was born female.

Don't know if that counts as "psycho", but definitely fucked up.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Eh, my family is pretty tame, if a little quirky (my dad's family are a bit nutty religious- 'there are no dinosaurs because they didn't make it onto the ark', one of his brothers has a hook because they made explosives once).

That said, one of my uncles on my mum's side is pretty well disliked by everyone. Basically, he had a massive midlife crisis, cheated on his wife (who is a ridiculously nice person, my mum is still good friends with her), started acting weirdly (wasting loads of money on expensive clothes, making new friends) and eventually left his wife for this woman when she confronted him about a text. Originally he didn't invite my mum to his second wedding (because she still talks to his ex-wife), but my nan made him. Apparently everyone there was under the illusion he used to be in the military and other such lies. What really pisses me off is what it's done to my cousins- they're a few years younger than me and the boy and my uncle were very close, and now they don't see him too often.

So no, not exactly psycho, just a near dictionary-definition of pathetic.

Actually, my grandad on my mum's side suffered from dementia pretty badly in the year or so before he died. I never actually saw him in that time, but it sounded horrible- Imagine if your father or your husband of over 50 years didn't recognize you?

 

[Neonbob]

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Please do yourself a favor and move out of that house. You probably don't realize but he has you wrapped ALL up in his business. I have personal experience with this kind of thing and the only thing you can do is cut the person out until they change their worst behaviors. That means moving out and not being a part of his bullshit. I know times are tough and we don't always have the financial freedom to do everything we want to but please, do something, work more hours, get a higher paying job, get roommates, anything to get out of that terrible situation.

You will feel so free afterwards. You will let go of stress you didn't even realize you were carrying with you, 24/7, no matter what. It can be scary but think about it, make a plan, then execute. You'll thank yourself.

We are working on getting the hell out of there, but it's going to be a month at the least before we have enough of a deposit saved up to get an apartment. So now it's just a matter of getting through the days.
Thanks for the encouragement, though!

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Reading this thread makes me realize how amazingly lucky i am to only have a mildly alcoholic cranky dad or lazy weird mom that rudely speaks behind peoples back that offend her in any way and has nearly no manners