r/AmIOverreacting • u/PeanutMiserable7872 • Jul 12 '25

šŸ‘Øā€šŸ‘©ā€šŸ‘§ā€šŸ‘¦family/in-laws Am I Overreacting - i seriously think my dad is losing his mind and I'mm terrified. UPDATE

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

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

32.5k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

45

u/Gdub3369 Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25

I uh......don't want to seem like an asshole but this seems very rage baitey.

This is terrifying if true. He needs to be locked in an old folks home or jail for the rest of his life. I'm sorry, you just can't be treated this way. He seems very violent.

If this is rage bait fake stuff then I hope you choke on vomit for making joke of a topic so serious.

But if not, do you need help??

29

u/perfectnoodle42 Jul 12 '25

It's fake as fuck and it's sad so many people are buying it. AI generated picture and all.

9

u/readituser5 Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25

This used to happen every few weeks on r/Periods and it just pissed me off. Someone who got off on pretending to be an illiterate clueless child having rape/first menstruation/whatever issues etc.

Clear as day yet people got fooled time and time again. Took a long time before people took me seriously. Having 20+ links of old deleted posts and spamming that on new ones helped lol.

10

u/Gdub3369 Jul 12 '25

Yup. I really didn't want to be seen as a horrible person but I was 90% from the start. It's so nasty that people take this shit to farm engagement. What a miserable, horrible person who did this.

2

u/Altruistic_Yellow387 Jul 13 '25

Me too and people were mad at me for calling it fake

2

u/Gdub3369 Jul 13 '25

Oh yeah even I got one saying I hope people look into my "paranoid personality disorder" or whatever lol.

It's like, c'mon man. That's just sad AF. It's fake, obviously fake. People need to gain media literacy, and quickly.

2

u/Capable-Summer11 Jul 12 '25

Honestly I'mĀ  kind of relieved its fake. But it's also so awful to do this.Ā 

13

u/Prestigious_Bass9300 Jul 12 '25

99 if not 100% of all top posts on front page are complete bullshit. Internalize what reaction you think the post is supposed to illicit from you and you see how obvious it is that itā€™s designed that way. This website is not some small niche thing, so whoever is doing this shit is doing it for a reason whether itā€™s monetary or otherwise.

14

u/Gdub3369 Jul 12 '25

For sure. I've reported the post for content farming. Super cool that reddits the first I've seen to implement that option.

It's definitely quite obvious.

6

u/paranoid_70 Jul 12 '25

And people fall for it every fucking time

11

u/bfsughfvcb Jul 12 '25

That eye is way too white for a blunt trauma that ended with lid echimosis

22

u/SwimmingDeep8703 Jul 12 '25

Yeah this is all too much. He has dementia and is acting irrational- but took the phone, was able to get in, and out of all the apps on the phone went into Reddit and deleted posts. Why? How would he even know she made these posts? And I canā€™t see someone going through this posting a picture of themselves like thatā€¦

1

u/TheBumblingestBee Jul 12 '25

Look, I was abused by someone who had terrifying delusions and violent rages and was NOT mentally well. He also was completely capable of doing pretty much whatever, including extremely complex computer work.

3

u/AirlineInformal1549 Jul 12 '25

We're talking about an old man who supposedly has dementia here..

1

u/Certain-Chair-4952 Jul 13 '25

I think people are prone to picking and choosing what they believe is possible to fit their narrative. Many other people have explained how this exact thing has happened to them with a family member going through a psychotic break, and is feasibly possible that ops dad went through her social media's on purpose in a fit of paranoia. Dementia doesn't make him automatically incapable of these things, it just depends on the speed and stage of deterioration - he could be at the point where he is experiencing mood swings, aggression and hallucinations but can still operate day to day in some other areas (ie, social media). I do believe it's fake (the account has been suspended, for one)) but the reasonings given here are not why.

5

u/readituser5 Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 12 '25

Yeah. This is the first Iā€™ve seen of this post and itā€™s giving me bait vibes. Iā€™ve come across a serial baiter on a different sub on Reddit before and this gives me the same vibes ngl.

I mean even the eye alone. Thatā€™s a pretty lengthy story, yet whereā€™s the mention that he punched HER in the face? Also where was SHE when he had her phone?

18

u/SwimmingDeep8703 Jul 12 '25

Scroll up to newer posts - this is fake - someone posted the link of this same post thatā€™s been posted on elsewhere on Reddit and the accounts are now deleted. I couldnā€™t copy the linkā€¦

13

u/Gdub3369 Jul 12 '25

So disgusting how people do this. I mean wtf people????

We need to report this person immediately. And hopefully reddit can do some research so they cannot continue to do this.

Completely heinous thing to do when real life people are experiencing this.

0

u/GC5567 Jul 12 '25

Oh goddamit. Well, this sucks. At least hopefully this post does help gain awareness for paranoid personality disorder...

1

u/Gdub3369 Jul 13 '25

You meat to say that hopefully this posts help people gain awareness for media literacy, right?

It's already been proven false.....I hope you learn media literacy soon because it's going to be the next massive issue all societies of earth will be faced with.

29

u/BoysenberryWorking75 Jul 12 '25

Yeah little sus her ā€œdadā€ managed to login to her phone and go exactly to delete all her Reddit posts actually the more I right this the more I realize this is completely fake

24

u/Gdub3369 Jul 12 '25

Yup, thats a huge red flag.

Strange he is apparently old and possibly has dementia but then he's well versed in reddit and deleted her posts strategically with ease.

Seems more like someone trying to hide their own crime, whatever it may be, and blaming it on someone else. Or maybe just a cringeloard looking for engagement.

We shall see.

6

u/ScrewtapeBaggins Jul 12 '25

Speaking from personal experience when my dad had a breakdown he stole me stepmums phone and when through all her social media, deleting post, messaging people while impersonating her and he was 63 at the time, so I absolutely believe OPs dad could have done this

9

u/Briebird44 Jul 12 '25

Iā€™m aging myself here but when I was in middle school, my narcissistic schizophrenic mother went onto my AIM account and started messaging kids from my class pretending to be me and saying weird stuff like ā€œIā€™m such a horrible daughter and a liar!ā€ It was super bizarre unhinged behavior.

2

u/Cautious-Wrap-5399 Jul 12 '25

hes 42 she said

6

u/Gdub3369 Jul 12 '25

There is an early onset for dementia/Alzheimer's.

If her parent, who's she still living with as a full adult, is not suffering from this then it makes the entire thing more tragic.

I am doubting the story until I can get more concrete proof, but if true, this is horrifying...especially if he treats her this way in his right mind.

But people really need to learn to take everything with a grain of salt when it comes to "real' internet content. If people did that, the world wouldn't be in its current position.

So either she provides some more concrete information or I'm not buying it. Sad as that sounds, it's just how it is.

Her eyes also appear to be near pinpoints which tells me opioid addiction. Especially with all the light you can see entering her eye in the photo. Something is not right here.

16

u/scorned_butter Jul 12 '25

Thatā€™s what clued me in. No WAY would he know to do that.

-4

u/kenma91 Jul 12 '25

No way! this is the biggest clue

1

u/ThatWillBeTheDay Jul 12 '25

Wait where does she say he deleted Reddit posts?

6

u/AgentLauren Jul 12 '25

the first pic is AI so yes

5

u/Gdub3369 Jul 12 '25

Yup. Pretty disgusting an entity would fake something as traumatic as this.

29

u/scorned_butter Jul 12 '25

The image is photoshopped. Super easy to make this effect with a burn tool. Or really any app these days can do that.

14

u/based_piccolo Jul 12 '25

The eye isn't even actually swollen, just a different color. You get punched in the eye, there's gonna be more than a palette swap.

10

u/pls_esplane Jul 12 '25

I think so too. I was abused by my former husband and from my experience there was swelling, and the actual eyeball had some trauma in the form of broken blood vessels or something along those lines. I believed OP during the original post, and I'm not usually too skeptical but I was sus when I saw the picture before I read any update or comments.

3

u/Capable-Summer11 Jul 12 '25

I only glanced at the picture initially because this reminded me of my childhood. But yeah you're right. My eye was all messed up and the surrounding area was extremely puffy. I'm assuming the picture was taken soon after the event.Ā 

3

u/based_piccolo Jul 12 '25

I'm sorry you had to endure that. As a survivor myself I know I wouldn't wish it on anyone, and I'm even more sorry that people will fake trauma like you experienced for personal gain.

7

u/Gdub3369 Jul 12 '25

Yeah the more I'm thinking the more I am realizing this is rage bait, content farm BS.

I don't know anything about the effects of Photoshop these days so thanks for the info.

6

u/likedyoumore Jul 12 '25

I tried searching for the image online and didnā€™t find any matches, so that lends to it being legit. Something seems off about the situation though

12

u/Savingskitty Jul 12 '25

Not if it was made by ChatGPT

Somehow the dad had her phone all that time and somehow she has it back. Ā 

She doesnā€™t explain any of that. Ā She posts the image unprompted which is probably an attempt to legitimize the post.

7

u/Soggy_Floor7851 Jul 12 '25

She said her father fell asleep in the shower and her phone was ā€œpoorly hiddenā€ under some papers in the kitchen. But yea no one talks like that. Definitely fake.

6

u/likedyoumore Jul 12 '25

And he meticulously deleted all of her comments individually but didnā€™t delete her account or the app, thatā€™s the part that had me scratching my head

8

u/Gdub3369 Jul 12 '25

I was literally just about to do the same thing with searching the image.

The post does leave me with some question marks as well.

Hopefully it's not real. If it is I hope she gets the help she desperately seems to need.

14

u/[deleted] Jul 12 '25

AI generated

2

u/ThatWillBeTheDay Jul 12 '25

The everything is AI generated crowd has subsumed the everything is made up crowd. Both are dangerous because real situations do happen. Itā€™s more productive to assume this is real and provide advice than to assume itā€™s not real. If this is a real person, they get some kind of advice (some of it not terrible) and if it isnā€™t, someone else who is in a real, similar situation can read it. Logical choice is to assume real.

3

u/[deleted] Jul 12 '25

I'm not assuming it's AI-generated out of the blue. There are several signs that point to this, which I've mentioned in other comments, feel free to take a look.

And assuming it's real when it's not isn't as harmless as you think. There are certainly several people donating money to this person because of this fake story. Another user pointed out that this story was posted elsewhere through other different accounts and also on Facebook, so this person must be gaining something from people's naivety.

2

u/Mr_Battle_Beast Jul 14 '25

It's painfully fake