If there anything I can do to help her?

[EmEd1984]

I don't know if this is the right place to put this question, but here goes!

There's a lady perhaps in her 70's that stands by the bus stop opposite my office nearly daily. She walks up and down the path near the bus stop shouting at cars and buses (almost like they're in the way or something) and sometimes just generally making loud noises. At first thats all it was, but now she's definitely got worse - really shouting, screaming, and randomly calling drivers in their cars stupid (that sort of thing). I went into M&S one day and all the staff were talking about the 'shouty lady' too, so she's obviously well known for it all round town. I know it sounds perhaps funny or not that big a deal, but these are blood curdling wails. She's clearly not fully 'there', and I can't help but think perhaps she's alone. Is there anything I could - or even should - do to help? It's probably not my place to get involved at all, i'm just concerned.

TIA, EmEd

[4getmenot]

I dont think there is no, eventually if she carries on and becomes a nuisance police will remove her or just move her on and after a while if she gets so many complaints she will be taken into a psychiatric ward I would have thought

[tigersam258]

what town is that cos I've been wondering waht happened to my mother-in-law.

[EmEd1984]

she's never there for long, and i don't hear her 'approaching', so i think she just gets off one bus and then gets on another. i hope i was clear, i don't want to complain about her in the slightest, i'm just concerned for her mental health.

tigersam258, its merseyside.

[tigersam258]

Emed, I was joking about my mother in law :D

I am sure that you are concerned however there is little that will be done unless she becomes a public nuisance or danger to herself or otheres.

you could call social services who may choose to send someone down to see her and then make a request to the court to take her into a secure ward for her own safety.

[EmEd1984]

tigersam i suspected you were but i was having a sneaky peek at your answer whilst at work, so i didn't fathom fully!! sorry :P

thatnks for your help both of you - EmEd

[squarebear]

I understand your predicament. We have a crazy old lady near here that goes around collecting litter and putting it in bags and unfortunately, she ended up getting beaten up.

[Jillius]

There used to be a woman like that in Scarborough. She would wear a flamenco style dress and dance in the street, occasionally lifting it up to reveal no underwear !
She also wore bright red lipstick that tended to be smudged. She was a laughing stock, poor woman. I think she was sectioned and I heard that she died a couple of years ago.

[EmEd1984]

in a pickle, thats terrible - i'm sorry you went through all that.

unfortunately i've no idea what her family situation is, but i'm sure if she had any perhaps she wouldn't be so freely independent as surely they would've found her some care.

maybe its just me - when i worked in a convenience store when i was younger i somehow 'adopted' an ederly woman, to the point where everyone called her 'Emma's old lady'. I became quite close to her (she always came in on my shifts) and i had to watch her get gradually worse to the point of er...following her around the shop with a mop, which she didn't even notice - she died not much longer after that at home.

i just don't want to be kicking myself if i hear somethings happened to 'shouty lady' and i hadn't done anything - squarebear, thats exactly one of my concerns.

thanks for your help guys

[anitabaggy79]

hi if you contact the social services they will take her to hospital and get in contact with her family as it sounds as though its the early stages of dementia

[gipsey]

EmEd she might be alone in the world, contact S.S. most people do not want to get involved . bless i hope your around when i go off my head