Erratic Behaviour - when to intervene

Quick question @Mac[/USER] , [USER=2272]@TheUlteriorMotive[/USER] ,[USER=686]@Kinvara’s Passion

Those stories you told, were drugs an issue with people who were mentally ill?

The anti weed campaigners always trot out the same old line of issues with mental health down the road from Marijuana use.

[QUOTE=“caoimhaoin, post: 1097902, member: 273”]Was there a pass made or some sort of unknown relationship going on and someone got burned?
May seem mad, but it has the hallmarks of that.

Or more likely is there was an insecurity nerve hit and there is issues in the son-in-laws and daughters relationship that the mother either knowingly or not hit.

If no history of mental illness it’s more likely something fairly explainable, and more likely to be the younger couples relationship than anything.[/QUOTE]
idiot alert

[QUOTE=“carryharry, post: 1098047, member: 1517”]Quick question @Mac[/USER] , [USER=2272]@TheUlteriorMotive[/USER] ,[USER=686]@Kinvara’s Passion

Those stories you told, were drugs an issue with people who were mentally ill?

The anti weed campaigners always trot out the same old line of issues with mental health down the road from Marijuana use.[/QUOTE]

The only drugs the people in question were on were prescribed as far as I know.

Quick question @Mac[/USER] , [USER=2272]@TheUlteriorMotive[/USER] ,[USER=686]@Kinvara’s Passion

Those stories you told, were drugs an issue with people who were mentally ill?

The anti weed campaigners always trot out the same old line of issues with mental health down the road from Marijuana use.[/QUOTE]

No drugs. Alcohol was a culprit in that meds don’t do their job properly when drink is consumed.

[QUOTE=“carryharry, post: 1098047, member: 1517”]Quick question @Mac[/USER] , [USER=2272]@TheUlteriorMotive[/USER] ,[USER=686]@Kinvara’s Passion

Those stories you told, were drugs an issue with people who were mentally ill?

The anti weed campaigners always trot out the same old line of issues with mental health down the road from Marijuana use.[/QUOTE]
A bit recreationally but probably less in recent times from what I saw.

Some horrible stories here. Thankfully have never come across something like this. Do ye really think someone can go from fully functioning no issues to having a serious episode like this with little or no warning? That’s absolutely terrifying

This guy did. He was annoying, grandiosity type stuff but fully functioning to the outside world. Behaviour became increasingly bizarre over two or three days culminating in today.

That scares the shit out of me. Any chance he had been diagnosed with something before and just never said anything?? Poor fkn family

No, it would have been his and bottled up no doubt over a long period of time. Very rarely do these things just happen.

Yes, they can.

Possibly building over time but it was controlled in public anyway.

Most likely, but it would have been there.

possibly
wife’s first job was working in a prison dealing with Palestinian kids whose parents were locked up, she is basing her PHD on this , she used to bring these stories home somedays, the onset on paranoid schizophrenia in males 17-26 is remarkable, she thinks there is always a trigger factor as opposed to conventional medical science that addresses an inbalance, the imbalance according to her is based on emotional trauma and the medicaton is merely a suppresant, she does not believe one is born with it and there is certainly no data to show it is genetic.
in all cases alcohol accelerates the episode and prevents an anti psychotic med from working… alcohol is never the cause.
the developement of a healthy mind to a psychotic one is scary, it starts off with odd little quirks, know of one such case where a lad dropped out of college, sat at home , actually locked himself into his garden shed reading , began calling parents when out to say drink was spiked and was in hospital, paranoid about viruses on computer, barricading the bedroom door at nitetime, evenatually threatening to march to dail eireann as he was been reported in the papers by bertie ahern, lad always had low self esteem, bad skin, maybe there was a trigger when in college…if that lad didnt get treatement he’d have been arrested or killed someome or himslef.
in all cases of a psychotic attack, sedatation and anti psychotic meds are necessary but then counselling is needed… in this country it does not happen.
after 3 weeks if released from hospital patient is released to local health board , usually once a month visit to psychiatrst with a six month prescription…

most definitely…i know 3 different lads it happened to…scary stuff…2 of them went from being really outgoing lads with a great sense of humour to beyond batshit crazy…the other wouldn’t leave his house as he thought people were after him…one thing all had in common was they all smoked a lot of hash growing up… shit is defo on the increase, the amount of lads having meltdowns of one sort or another is massive…

[QUOTE=“carryharry, post: 1098047, member: 1517”]Quick question @Mac[/USER] , [USER=2272]@TheUlteriorMotive[/USER] ,[USER=686]@Kinvara’s Passion

Those stories you told, were drugs an issue with people who were mentally ill?

The anti weed campaigners always trot out the same old line of issues with mental health down the road from Marijuana use.[/QUOTE]

Latest on this is drugs were a big factor. Load of different prescription drugs and cannabis. Still psychotic two days later but family is taking some comfort that if it is drugs then it is fixable as opposed to something that happened “for no reason”.

Watching a recent RTE documentary on schizophrenia here. Harrowing stuff.

Had to turn it off… Someone close to princess suffers so it was too upsetting for her.

She still loves you and so do we. You’re a lovely bunch of fellows.

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I know what you mean, I got upset when Davy Fitz attacked the lads behind the printers the other night so we had to turn that off as well.

Who are you talking to?