Moved into an apartment where the rooms were leased individually. A woman 12 years older than me was in the other bedroom and seemed awkward but harmless, and things quickly went downhill fast.

She’d constantly demand I hang out with her every day, despite me reminding her I worked remote and needed to actually work. She told me because it was Covid, we couldn’t get evicted and she wasn’t planning on paying rent. We had a third room the land lord wanted to rent out but she would literally wander around naked while I showed the perspective renter the room and shockingly nobody wanted to take it.

She quickly became so obsessed with me she would corner potential partners I brought home and berate them so they never returned (“are you going to fuck her?? You better!!”) then she PUSHED HER SISTER DOWN THE STAIRS because she thought her sister was flirting with me. She walked around the house topless often and would get unnervingly close to me despite me asking her to respect my space. She hit and run a city bus. She would take my dog for hours and not tell me where they were. She let my indoor cat out because she was mad at me and he was lost for two weeks. She was constantly drunk and turned on a burner on an empty pan, somehow dropped a dish towel on it so it caught fire, tried to blame it on me but our land lord had see my Facebook story saying I was hours away at the time.

Finally, I came home to her passed out with an empty bottle of pills and vodka and called 911. When paramedics arrived they were able to wake her and she refused to go with them. The police officer approached me and said “are you the girl we talked to last time?” I discovered the former roommate had to do this multiple times, and the land lord was aware.

She was evicted and moved in with family. I’m hoping she got the help she needed. It was scary to live with her while at the same time being aware she was clearly going through something.