How not to deal with a paranoid delusional neighbour

I’m not sorry. I’ve apologised for years for nothing and its over.

A delusional neighbour will blame you, as the closest dumpee available, for everything they imagine is happening to them. Over time you’ll become the focus for every slight or imposition. Everything that goes wrong in their world is your fault, and despite actual run-ins with everyone else on the block, it’s because you live next door. If someone scratches the car or a possum breaks their pot plants, it was you, they know it was, it was fucking you…you did it.

Delusional neighbours are invested in their victimhood. They identify with it. They’ll project blame onto the closest, most convenient target and nothing sways them. If you attempt to reason with them you’re a lying psychopath. If you get angry you’re a psychopath. If you defend yourself you’re a psychopath. You need never utter a single threat, they’ll do all that for you, to you…Why? Because you’re a psychopath, and in their minds, all their abuse is justified.

Delusional neighbours never apologise, never take accountability or accept responsibility for a single mistaken accusation, or for bullying, intimidating, and hostile behaviour.

In a way it’s partly your fault, because you’ve apologised for the smallest imagined slights and offenses, for so long, just to avoid drama, that they come to believe their own bullshit, and they will find their projection of you, highly offensive. The person they think you are, the shit filtered version of you in their minds is highly offensive to them.

But hey, all things come to an end. New beginnings and all that. You reach the limits of neighbourly arse-kissing. You set boundaries, you say no. You do what you have to do.

Unfinished …..to be continued