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I'm frustrated. My roommate is pushing me to the point where I don't know what to do anymore. He is a nice guy, mostly, otherwise I'd never have let him move in, but lately, I cannot deal with his behavior. He's often very manic, a giant ball of energy that's exploding in all directions. He'll talk in high pitched voices or in gibberish like you'd talk to an infant or a pet, he'll make disruptive sounds just to see the reactions of people around him. He's often like a small child begging me for attention, especially when I'm on the phone. He's incapable of keeping a job because anyone attempting to assert authority over him, in his mind, is an enemy. I try to talk to him about his behaviors, and he insists that he's doing these things to be funny. I say I don't find them funny at all, and he says that my reactions are funny to him, so he keeps doing these things. Then on the flip side, he'll go into dark moods where he will be rude to my friends or say inappropriate things, stay in his bedroom for days, not take care of himself, not even shower...always he's dismissive of other people's feelings, he will rudely cut you off if a topic of conversation doesn't interest him, he speaks in repetitive words and phrases, and has an odd obsession with his own childhood. I know he's got SOMETHING, but what? He has his good days where you can have conversations with him, for a while he was a very good friend to me. But then it just goes downhill. I wish I understood what was wrong, he's a very smart, and often funny man, but the weirdness and unpredictability is hard to handle.