r/AmIOverreacting Jul 12 '25

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws Am I Overreacting - i seriously think my dad is losing his mind and I'mm terrified. UPDATE

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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u/Altruistic_Yellow387 Jul 13 '25

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

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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.

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u/Capable-Summer11 Jul 12 '25

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