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It seems that I dole out a lot of advice here on TFP and I figured it was about time I asked for some.

Here's the background on the issue at hand: I live in a house with three other people, two girls and a guy (so three girls and a guy total). We are all 22-4 years old. Usually we get along pretty well, but one of the female roommates, over the course of living with her, has shown us she is an unstable, emotional mess.

By mess I mean that breaking up with her boyfriend of four months nearly drove her to suicide, by unstable I mean that her temper goes from 0-60 with no in between. We have had to consistently deal with her mood swings. She is entirely unpredictable--this last summer she told us she was okay with us having a few friends over to drink, and when the friends did show up she threw an enormous temper tantrum, slamming doors, screeching and threatening to call the cops. A friend finally managed to calm her down AFTER she ripped the doorknob off of her door. So we've known for some time we're living with a bomb waiting to go off.

This last Saturday the bomb went off. We all agreed last week to clean the house on Saturday morning. We agreed ahead of time that we would ALL pitch in and get it done no matter what. When Saturday came, however, she thought that because she was hungover she got a free pass out of cleaning the house. My male roommate knocked on her door several times to get her to come out and help us. When she did finally come out, she screeched at him, called him a fucker, and told him she was hungover and wanted to be left alone. He kept after her to come out and help us. The second time she came out screeching she knocked a vase full of water all over our mail. The third time, however, was the worst: she came out with a tennis racket and threatened to destroy his stereo, which we had on in the living room so we could clean to music.

Now it's been agreed between the other three roommates that she HAS to go. But the problem is that she obviously has some issues, and if we try to approach this like normal, rational adults we can pretty much expect that she will not react in kind. Our main problem at the moment is that she IS on the lease and paid a portion of the deposit. Obviously we're examining our options but trying to keep it very quiet because if she gets wind of this...boom. We have an appointment with the campus attorney for later this week. I'm hopeful she can give us some ideas.

In the meantime, though...do you guys have any ideas? (Wow, it also felt really good to just rant.)

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