by huytongirl » Wed Jul 09, 2014 9:49 pm
My ex had a version of this. He lives with his parents who are in their 80s and very ill. He says that he is safe there, because no one would dare attack him in a house with elderly people in it. You could not shift his certainty on this point. Now, I would say that the fact that there are two elderly people in the house would mean nothing to someone who wanted to break in and hurt someone - simply make the attack easier. But he has to have some explanation of why the attack hasn't happened. So this is it.
He also believed he was being poisoned. He would say, "It's been a few weeks since I've seen X or Y, I haven't felt as ill lately, so they must have been poisoning me."
For people with paranoia, anything can be used as evidence. Anything at all.
I know they can't help it, but I can't help being exhausted by it, or being (selfishly) miserable because it didn't work out, because he isn't who I thought he is, and I can't live with the illness he has and what it has done to him.