please take a look at "have you ever been arrested" thread on ILE

It was just the attention to elaborate and well spoken asides - the books in his bag and whatnot - in a ludid and almost parodid manner compared to the incoherence of the overall story. Stuff like " The driver got out a blunt (I believe they're called)" and ", including an original addition of a fine C.P. Snow book of essays on a random-ish selection of characters of the period" while elsewhere clearly knowing drug slang. It was like Pinefox does Tarantino, I dunno I found it odd.

lucid and parodied, sorry. New laptop, kbd is a bit flaky.

OK the shit a bit further down is more problematic, granted. Its the first lucid part that gave me pause. Anyway you guys seem to know who this person is, based on what you're saying, so carry on.

My Dad has had episodes like that too - weirdly detailed in the paranoia but otherwise completely confusing and incoherent - glad the mods can soothe all our worried souls because it did make me quite sad and frustrated that there was so little that I could think to do :(

Well done all round. I had considered calling 111 and giving them the address given in the thread (mods - might be worth deleting that info now), but I wouldn't have had a clue what to say to them, so gold stars all round to those who did help in any way. I also have a family member who is also paranoid and delusional to almost the same level, but it's completely understandable that it would seem false and weird to others, and also that others may be wary of "saying the wrong thing" and thus stepping back.

yeah several of my friends have been going through similar things (it's like a weird version of that phenomenon where you reach a certain age and all the people you know start getting married, except that all my friends seem to be having psychotic episodes or drug problems). I vomited on the updatess thread about this the other week but it's pretty distressing and yeah, campari's posts looked very familiar to me.

I have to say, it's been my impression that the internet is very much not a good thing for people in the middle of one of these episodes: it allows them work themselves up in an unhealthy manner, ppl start trolling &c; so it's encouraging to see an instance where the internet has been able to help to some degree.

I apologize for some of my petty sniping, hope the guy is in a better place now

The salad recipe should have been our tip-off that he might need some help, in retrospect

ha

Hey campari glad yr feelin better pls let me know when we get to start clownin u over this if answer is 'never' thats cool too

I apologise for clowing that thread. I didnt read the whole thing, and the start of it looked odd.

err clowning

To err is human trayce, to clown divine

Sacred clowes

with the huge and more important assitance of a uk ilxor that deserves a gold star for his help (much more than I) but shall go nameless.

See, you mods are always hating on Dom until you need him the most.