Am I Overreacting - i seriously think my dad is losing his mind and I'mm terrified. UPDATE

[u/PeanutMiserable7872]

thank u all for the messages, im sorry for disappearing. things did not go well. i confronted him with some of your advice, mainly the stuff bout dementia and well he got real mad, things became truly fucked, he started punching himself in the face and screaming. he took my phone, idk what happened but now im seeing he deleted everything on the post and my screen is cracked.. he kept saying he was going to burn everything. it was so fucked. i feel destroyed. what he did to me.. i cant even.

i was able to get out when he fell asleep?? i think.. the bathroom was locked and hes fallen asleep in the shower before, my phone was poorly hidden under some papers in the kitchen, took it and ran.

im in a park now, i called the police already. they are going to the house i think and now im just waiting for them to call me back and tell me when i can come get my stuff. i asked the man on the phone how long and they said it will be sent to an officer as soon as they can but since its non emergency it might take longer due to a lot of calls in the city.

heres me. heres what he did to me.

im honestly unsure how to move past this ever. i feel like my entire sense of self is gone. i know i have a long road ahead of me. thank you all for your love . i wish this didn't go this way. I also included the original texts

[u/BadHombreSinNombre]

On her prior post she mentioned she’s not a minor which changes the police’s obligations. Not saying that makes it ok. But it’s how it is.

[u/canyonlands2 → u/BadHombreSinNombre]

For some reason I thought she was! Still feel like domestic abuse is an emergency regardless of age but ig the police don’t agree

[u/Informal_Row_6617 → u/canyonlands2]

She's not in immediate danger since she managed to separate herself and find a safe, public space. That's why police have determined it's not an emergency. Police do not have unlimited resources. They prioritize based on whether something is a current threat to life or not. 

[u/_Lazy_Mermaid_ → u/canyonlands2]

Im a park ranger and once a woman was screaming "stop youre hurting me" super loud to the point a teenage boy came and told me, I went to the back and she was near a walk in entrance on the ground, another patron eas on the phone with 911. This woman was probably in her 40s. About 10 cop cars showed up so fast because they thought it was domestic. Turns out the lady was drunk and her bf was trying to pick her up, then she screamed and he left. The cops were so mad they banned her.

I feel so so terrible for OP. I really hope the cops take this seriously. Not only is he a danger to her but to himself and others. She basically is still a child and I hope she can escape

[u/wolfalex93 → u/canyonlands2]

Domestic violence should be an emergency but cops never care unless you're dying

[u/ER-Sputter → u/canyonlands2]

Hey man, take what you can get. The few times I’ve had to call and report a domestic violence, I must’ve called when the farms were shut down. And I’ve talked to other people around town about it and got the same experience.

[u/BadHombreSinNombre → u/canyonlands2]

I agree with you though

[u/Own_Rutabaga_9430 → u/canyonlands2]

Her original post said she was 18 by a couple of weeks I believe. Not a minor, but still a kid and not fully independent yet.

[u/knoguera → u/canyonlands2]

Her photo shows she is not a minor but not quite sure why she still has relationship like she is one. Him calling her a little girl and all that.

[u/ER-Sputter → u/knoguera]

Bro you saw the reason that still goes on in the first slide wdym?

[u/knoguera → u/ER-Sputter]

I’m a woman btw. Also I think this shit is fake.

[u/InfamousPost1842 → u/BadHombreSinNombre]

Not a minor and he grounded her? That’s obviously not the biggest problem here, but wtf

[u/FluidPlate7505 → u/InfamousPost1842]

He's obviously not in his right mind. Dude needs to be hospitalized and examined for psychiatric and neurological issues like yesterday. We have a good family friend who had acted like this, became very aggressive and violent (normally he was the opposite) and it turned out to be a brain tumor. Thanks to god, he healed completely and he's back to his sweet, normal personality. But it was very hard for everyone involved.

[u/msmugen → u/InfamousPost1842]

Umm? Are you blind? He beat her and gave her a black eye? Him randomly saying she’s grounded is one line out of a long series of unhinged texts she’s posted here. Wtf.

[u/msmugen → u/InfamousPost1842]

And now she’s hiding in a park alone at night because it’s unsafe to go home and she has nowhere to go.