Well now, I have a long rave in me.
About 5am this morning the landline phone rang once and then stopped. When I got up later this morning and pressed star 10 hash to find out who had called, it was the phone number of the possible new friend I've been trying to meet up with for a few weeks. She also rang yesterday, and three times last week, just to 'see how I was'.
That is too many times for a new friend, I think, especially when I hadn't already returned her calls.
In the phone calls she has told me strange and horrible things. She told me her daughter was the trigger of all her anxiety and recited horrible things her daughter said to her when aged six years old. She then said because she (the woman) is psychic, she 'knows these things'. This made me wonder if her daughter actually said those horrible things to her, or her mother just thought she was psychic and could read her mind.
She further told me she was going to disinherit her daughter and give all her money to her nephew, who (two weeks ago) gave her unconditional love for the first time in her life. The way she told it, I wondered if she had only just met this nephew for the first time a couple of weeks ago. She told me her daughter is suffering now from post-natal depression and suggested she has other troubles. In other words, it sounds like the daughter really might need the inheritence from her mother (whenever that happens). Whereas the nephew (someone she told me owns a law firm), likely does not. I wanted to tell her to leave her money to her daughter, but didn't, too presumptuous and don't know the full story.
In her earlier phone call last week, she told me a truly horrific story about something that happened to her, it made me sick to hear it. It came completely out of the blue of another otherwise light conversation.
This woman and I met at the local mental health centre about 2 years ago. I've seen her rarely over that time, but several times I've bumped into her on the street. We have always been friendly and given each other a hug when we see each other (a precedent that was set earlier on at the mental health centre, where people fairly regularly hug each other).
I feel unsettled about this woman who now knows my phone numbers. I think she may be psychotic with her bipolar at present. She has only recently come out of hospital and told me the community mental health team are coming to see her this week and may possibly make her an involuntary admission to the psych ward again.
She is in her mid-60s and has had many admissions and many changes of name. She seems to have no friends at all, and hasn't had for a long time.
I don't know whether to cut contact at this point. I usually start friendships slowly, in an easygoing way. The full-on-ness of this woman is bothering me, as I don't think I could handle her degree of disturbance in person (she's never been full on like that when we met before I gave her my phone numbers). She's also regularly calling various people 'rubbish'.
She claims to be psychic and also said that psychics are not veangeful (she said this in relation to her daughter mentioned above). I have been close to a number of people who I believe are psychic to some degree, and sometimes think I may even be a little that way myself. I also know from experience that, for this kind of spiritual or mystical realm, it's important for it to be balanced and grounded in rationality as well. Otherwise it can go kind of wild and get outlandishly delusional. I am especially skeptical of psychics who say really bad things about people based on their 'psychic' perceptions (such as her daughter).
What do you all reckon? I don't want to hurt her, but she makes me feel a bit afraid to be honest. Will I be safe around this woman?
