<p>This person used to be a neighbor many years ago and was quite annoying, dropping in to talk to me without being invited and refusing to leave…I didn’t see her for many years but in the last 6 months have been getting all kinds of “joke of the day” spam from her email address. I mostly just delete it all but when I have opened them it appears she’s being treated for some kind of psychosis. (YAY!!! IT’S A BEAUTIFUL DAY AND I GOT OUT OF_____INSTITUTE AN HOUR AGO…READ THIS FUNNY POEM!!!) I’m one of about 15 names that she sends this stuff too, which is very strange since years went by without any contact at all. They don’t seem to be personally directed at me.</p>
<p>This morning I had six spam emails from her…</p>
<p>As far as I know she now lives very far away from me.</p>
<p>Can weird spam attacks turn into something more serious?</p>
<p>Psychosis usually refers to sensory experiences that actually don’t take place such as hearing voices, seeing things, intrusive thoughts, smells, tastes, etc. Psychosis can come about in people that are schizophrenic, bipolar, that have depression, suffer from PTSD and sometimes mothers after delivering.</p>
<p>I read somewhere that folks with psychosis are more of a danger to themselves than to others.</p>
<p>I think that you’re thinking of psychopathic which is quite a different and more dangerous thing.</p>
<p>okay, I think I just did a filter thing so it goes straight to spam…hopefully she has no way of knowing I did that; don’t want to push her over the edge. She said she was being treated for bipolar I think.</p>