Posted by jjj on March 8, 2004, at 8:16:16
Hello,
I've been having a problem with my neighbor, at least I'm thinking now that it is my neighbor. I hear complaints through my thin walls from his apartment about all the noise in my apartment and about how I spend my time. I have problems with social phobia and have trouble relating to others, so I spend a lot of time at home. I use my computer for gaming and I lurk on message boards, etc... My computer is usually on for several hours a day. I think he has problems with the typing and mouse click noise. This seems totally ridiculous. Anyways, I hear things faintly through the walls. "All you do is watch videos and play computer games. All day. All night." "What the hell is wrong with you?" "What are you doing with your life?" "Why do you live here?" "You are the worst neighbor I've ever had!", etc... This isn't a once and a while thing. Last night he kept me up pretty much all night. My refridgerator is getting old and the compressor makes a bit of noise when it kicks in. So, at 4:00 am I'm hearing complaints about the refridgerator along with all the other stuff.This started a couple of months ago. It was REALLY bad, so I started taking risperdal, thinking that the neighbor's voice was a hallucination. At the time I was hearing the voice outside of my bedroom, at work, etc... I wasn't sleeping very much. The risperdal helped a lot. The voice pretty much went away, so I was convinced that I was psychotic and the medication did the trick.
Now I'm still taking risperdal, and I'm still hearing these complaints. I'm unsure if I'm really hallucinating or if my neighbor is really extremely angry at me for making too much noise.
Is it possible that I may need a higher dose of risperdal over time?There he goes right now...
I was wondering if anybody else has these types of problems. I'm thinking of going over and knocking on the guy's door. Something along the lines of "I'm not sure how much sound gets through the walls. Would you mind if I came into your apartment to listen and see how loud my television and computer are?"
I feel pretty guilty about the whole thing, but I really don't appreciate what the guy is doing (assuming that he is real). I don't want to change my behavior after he's kept me up all night. He really has no right to question how I spend my time.
Thanks for reading. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this subject.
-jjj
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