My neighbour has Paranoid Schizophrenia what can i do to stay safe?

Have been in this situation for nine very long years now,I get called a slag amongst other things .my life is a misery because of it,she is usually screeching for at least three hours a day..contacted social services who did nithing also housing assiciation who were nit much use either.new neughbiurs even calked police;again nithing.seems evertything is geared towards there welfare

We live in an apartment complex where is a double dangerous situation. One she confess and her behavior is of a person with a diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia. Her acting out go from 0 To whoa for any reason, we have to be invisible and takes the threats of her relatives, and her absolutely disgusting husband he is a wife beater. Yes, to the mentally ill person. This is extremely dangerous the police has come several times, the man retaliate in whomever call the police. My son and have asthma the woman who is ill smokes 24/7 and that smoke goes in our unit. I have spoke to the police explain in detail the situation, the landlord knows but nothing changes. Our 11 year old dog also suffer the second hand smoke, she becomes fearful as she the woman escalate and deescalate when the abusive husband abuse her, or talks to her as if he is a professional of mental health. WE are not moving, sometimes I feel as if she does things to, terrorize the neighbors, so far many people has pass from my apartment and live due to that unstable exploiter men and woman dynamics. We avoid them all the time, wear ear plugs at at sometimes I have raised my voice to say STOP NOW!, works yes, but makes so unhappy and I feel as I need to report this situation to NAMI or a Domestic Violence Center. PLEASE HELP US!

In response to the entry from November 5th,2015:

Hi,
1) Call the police every time he acts out or makes a threat
2) Keep a notebook log of his behaviors toward yourself AND others. Note the Date, Time and any other witnesses.
3) Are you renting? Is he? Can you complain to the landlord? Does his wife own the property? If so, is she "safe" to talk to about this?
4) Install REAL video coverage if you can, check your local regulations first.
5) Talk to the Police about any kind of "Harassment" charges you can file. Make sure you find out if it's a "criminal offense" charge(which means the District Attorney is representing you) vs a "civil offense" (Which means that you very likely would need to go to court, would probably need to hire an attorney for $250+/hr and retainer fee up front and you could lose and pay not only your attorney, but probably his attorney fees also, I know this first hand from what I went through with my problem neighbor so we went with the police, DA's office and let it proceed through the criminal court, but then again, he assaulted me, I had witnesses).
6) Since your wife is disabled, that's possibly in your favor that you may be more easily able to get some sort of protective order since you are her caretaker.
7) You said he tried to strangle you, did you call the police? Did you have witnesses? if not ALWAYS call the police with that sort of thing. If he did try to strangle you, he's an idiot - I wish my neighbor had tried that because that's a very easy thing to physically get out of and the strangler has no idea how much damage you can inflict on them when they are stupid enough to place both of their hands around your throat in front of you or from behind with an arm around your neck. Seriously, stupid on their part.
8) Do you know your other neighbors? if not, get to know them.
9) Have any of your neighbors had problems with this guy? If so, you should all keep in communication and watch each other's backs on this issue.
10) Dirtbags with a history of trouble with the law unfortunately get a free court appointed attorney every time they have a "criminal"(not civil) charge against them, and every time they are getting extensive free coaching on the letter of the local/state laws and often know the laws as well as (and sometimes) better than the police/sheriff and dirtbags know just how far they can push to the line of the law, and how to manipulate in their favor. So, keep note of that, when you make notes on your dirtbag's behavior, and he(or his attorney) claim mental illness, have any notes you can(and share this with the police) on your observations on how this person did any sort of pre-planning his moves before he made them, such as noting that he scoped out the area prior to acting just to make sure there are no other witnesses.
11) Be Proactive
12) Be Proactive
13) Be Proactive

Good Luck

I live in a 10 unit 55 and older condominium building. 2 years ago women moved in whom is a self admitted paranoid schizophrenic.she makes accusations that people are going into her unit and stealing papers and money. last week she called the police because the name tag on her mail box came off. she thought someone was tampering with it. it was held on with tape.she goes from 0 to screaming in about 2 seconds when you try to reason with her.any time work is being done on the building she confronts the workers and starts yelling at them.i think she has a grown son but he never comes around.we think that her mother bought her the unit to get her out of the house. during one of her episodes she mentioned "the institution".so we think she was committed at one point.she posts ridiculous notes on the building peg board that look like a 2 year old wrote it.big loopy letters with broken thoughts from her mind. i wish she would move!

This is what living with the disease I have is like: Living with disease like this is more like being followed around by people trying to incite you to do their bidding, trying to frame you for crimes, trying to blackmail you, trying to put you in situation like if you did get involved with a woman it would be someone covering up they were having an affair. It is like having every con person wanting to sue someone when you are working targeting you to setup a slip and fall accident so that they can later have a team of people drive you into psychosis for a slip and fall lawsuit. It is like having everyone hate you because of the suspision that all the frames cause and you say what the heck it doesn't matter what I do this is my fate. It is like if someone does something wrong they know they can peg it on you because you can't testify against them. They know people can bully you and if they can incite you to do something they get away with it. They know that everyone will sexually be frightened of you because of the stigma and they use that against you so they follow you around with titles other than mentally ill so they can have your jobs at the offices. If you notice about these people in these articles there is never any writing about what people did to them. Everyone follows around these people and stalks them to take blame for their pregnancies, their cheating, their stealing, their crimes, their discriminatory tactics, their lawsuites and get rich quick schemes. You only get a job when the boss feels he has to hire you cause he is in a lawsuit with a person you are filling in for for discrimination and believe me they want to make an example of you and discredit you. You have no right to testify and they treat you just as bad in prison to I am sure and most are probably framed or incited into doing the crimes they are convicted.

I have a similar problem as you. He's maybe 60 years old, William Barry (or at least that's one of his pseudonyms) lives at the end of Mavus Road in Old Tappan on the edge of the golf course. I frequently walk up the road along the edge of the course and he thinks I'm violating his property if I so much as walk by it and pick up a ball on the edge of the course. His home is dozens of feet from the edge of the course and clearly does not own the land up to a couple feet from the green! He has threatened me twice over the course of several years and thinks I'm out to abduct or rape or somehow Do Something to his Dog! His dog is well Away from the course and I've only glimpsed the cute pooch once. He's a threatening nutcase though and, if I'm not mistaken, telephones his (like-minded?) neighbors who live along the same course periphery to "warn" them of my approach, and they sometimes go out into their yards to "watch" for me?

The nature of this town has Changed as have the neighbors. The new ones are extremely pretentious and attention/status seekers. Conservative types who probably still fear the "Reds under the beds"
and a communist take-over of the government. That sort of thing. I think this is an outgrowth of the Mafia mentality in my neck of the woods. I've walked the same course, on and off, for 40 odd years since I was a tot but never before came across such a disruptive, verbally-abusive madman.

Normal hysteria for a blog like this? Haha, I am adult paranoid schizophrenic, and I am with ability to collect University Credits, without a delusion belief other than, the normal will not harm me. Risk or Threat am I? Good Question. I know the grand answer, but merely I am a mouse with enlarged ventricles. Now who is the threat, possible those experimental doctors that come from the normalcy of every average joe, but they are not average, they are educated, and some care for us, others like priests molest. I know Risk Assessment and Threat Management, and I focus on those of you that endanger my life with insult, ridicule, and fantastic great distaste, so really, you are afraid of us, we are afraid of people like you. Do us a favour, let us grow, and don't do what they did to the mentally retarded with sterilization, because you may want to warrant a lobotomy that once was, thank god there are kooks like you, or you would make us normal.