Bird Deterrents To Scare Birds Away From Your Property

My grandmother (on my mom’s side of the family) has lived with my mom and I all throughout my youth and growing up…about 15 years or more. I’m 27 years old, and right now I don’t mind being at home helping mom out (who otherwise can’t pay all of the bills on her own at the time, and is also taking care of her mother by giving her a place to stay).

My mom went through this stuff with my father, as well. When I was 10 years old, my father put a gun to his head in other room early one morning and that’s what woke us up. He thought "aliens" were doing physical things to harm his body. My mom tried and tried to get him some help. She admitted him to a hospital several times, but they only wanted to keep him for 48 hours and then he signed himself out because they said nothing was wrong with him. Though the hospital did say that he had some problems. The same with psychiatrists that he went and talked to…he was "normal" when he talked to them. Yet at home, he was hearing/seeing stuff or something like that. He said the most random things (sometimes in front of the police which my mom had to call out because he was also very abusive at times). For instance, he told a police office that "they wanted him to go see <his psychiatrist’s name here> because he had lead in his head." Stuff off the wall like that which made no sense.

Now my grandmother (my mom’s mother living with us) seems to have a similar, but different issue. For well over 15 years, she has apparently heard a "guy" that torments her, plays loud music, various instruments, supposedly threatens family members by name, etc. She has done everything from call the bomb squad to the house next door because she thought someone in the attic there said "the bomb goes off in x minutes"…to saying that our neighbors trained birds to peck on our house (woodpeckers that occassionally have done that on and off for years). She makes the most random, wild accusations against people who didn’t do anything to her. She hates everybody on t.v., all of our neighbors, anybody related in our family that she doesn’t like…and is well known for saying that someone is "really a man dressed up like a woman" or a "woman dressed up like a man" if she doesn’t like them. She has gay on the brain, basically. I have no idea why.

It seems to have gotten worse and worse over the time. She used to sit and write all of this stuff down in what she thought were "books" to sell. Random things just starting off in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes she thinks she can hear someone in a house far away "running" or walking. She basically thinks it’s a neighbor that she called the police to decades ago - who set up speakers and microphones throughout the neighborhood to torment her for doing so. Obviously, my grandmother is the only one who hears anything and tries to put words in other people’s mouths (like my mom) and say that they hear it too…when they don’t. She she described things such as laying or sitting on the couch and feeling the "floor jumping up and down" and has made comments that the "ground was jumping up and down."

Yes, probably 15 to 30 years ago, a psychiatrist or doctor or someone that she saw said that she had paranoid schizophrenia. She’s paranoid of all of our neighbors and hates them. She watches my mom (who is 50 something) go out every day and watches her like a little school girl until she gets to the top of the street and turns. Likewise, she does the same when she’s on the way home. I’m always amazed at the most ridiculous connections her mind seems to make. She’ll see a comic (from a newspaper) sitting on a car or wall or something, and somehow connect that to say that someone "sat the comic there" because she knew them from x location or because she said x something.

She thinks the neighbors poisoned our former dog - when it was really her giving the dog lots of stuff daily that wasn’t good for dogs. She won’t see a doctor or psychiatrist (she doesn’t think anything is wrong with her) and now hates all doctors, as well.

All of her life, she never held a steady job for very long (so no pension now). Of course, she made up wild lies about her employer and they either let her go or she quit. So basically she has nothing now and just seems to get more and more miserable with each day. Does schizoprenia get worse and worse with time?

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