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my flatmate has actually gone crazy. like, properly basket-case mental. he believes he's jesus and that his dad is god. he doesn't recognise his mother. he believes his sister has given him the holy grail to protect (it's actually a small houseplant) and that she is in mortal danger. he thinks that bbc radio 1 is sending him subliminal messages to phone in, take drugs and be promiscuous. he was due to pack up and leave our flat the other day and take the train home. he packed everything, dumped it all in his sister's room and got on a long distance train with nothing but the clothes he was wearing. now, i don't like the guy at all but i'm fairly worried about him. last weekend he went out on mdma powder. he takes a lot of drugs, e, cocaine, weed, all the time. as far as i know he's not done pure mdma before and i think he was taking it as if it was cocaine, i.e. big lines, your only supposed to do very small lines of mdma cuz it's properly potent stuff. he's at home now but his family are pretty incompetent (okay thats a lie, they're fucking inept) at dealing with anything. they are worried about him but they seem to be treating him as if it's just a little breakdown from stress. his dad took him out for a drive the other day, apparently to get him to snap out of it. now, i'm no expert but this doesn't seem like the best way to deal with someone who's displaying all the symptoms of a paranoid schizophrenic or whatever. i mean me and my other flatmates have been on the internet to look up what his behaviour means and it seems to correlate to practically every well known mental disorder in the book. we're also pretty scared of him. he drinks a fair bit too and he gets violent when he's drunk with no provocation and he's a big guy. there's no way i could defend my self against him without a weapon and nor could my other flatmates who are all fairly petite girls. with his wildly unpredictable mental state the last week we were pretty worried for our own safety. he's gone home to his family now, so we are safe but his sister, who is also a bit of a headcase, comes back from holiday this weekend and she's is just going to flip. as i said, the family doesn't deal with things well and they tend to blow minor things out of proportion. imagine how they are going to deal with this.

not entirely sure what i'm after with this post. maybe some comments, observations or maybe someone could relate to me any similar experiences they might have had because i just don't know how to react to this. it's simply mental.

call the authorities. if he's not a danger to others, he is a danger to himself.

Go through your stuff and make sure you have no drugs on you so that you won't be caught up. but sounds like it could end up to be big trouble if left unchecked.

Wow... that's really weird. Cocaine has been known to actually induce severe psychosis, but I've never really heard a story about it 'til now...

Yeah, I would definitely try to find him some professional help. While many mentally ill people are harmless and just like talking to themselves, if he has violent tendencies, then you're right to be worried (that'd be pretty freaky, having a crazy guy living with you)

well, i've no danger of being implicated in anything associated with this guy. we've barely seen him the whole year he's been living with us until the last week. we were really worried that he hadn't actually left on thursday morning seeing as all his stuff was left in the flat. we thought he was going to turn up in the afternoon or evening in some sort of scary state. we were certainly ready to call someone up and get him sectioned if he did turn up back at the flat. luckily he didn't and he actually went home but i don't feel that i can wash my hands of the situation now nor do i think it's right to, much as i dislike the guy, i've lived with him for a year so whatever is happening with him is bound to have been affected in some way by me and my flatmates, and whatever repercussions happen from this sort of thing will come our way.

my flatmate has actually gone crazy. like, properly basket-case mental. he believes he's jesus and that his dad is god. he doesn't recognise his mother. he believes his sister has given him the holy grail to protect (it's actually a small houseplant) and that she is in mortal danger. he thinks that bbc radio 1 is sending him subliminal messages to phone in, take drugs and be promiscuous. he was due to pack up and leave our flat the other day and take the train home. he packed everything, dumped it all in his sister's room and got on a long distance train with nothing but the clothes he was wearing. now, i don't like the guy at all but i'm fairly worried about him. last weekend he went out on mdma powder. he takes a lot of drugs, e, cocaine, weed, all the time. as far as i know he's not done pure mdma before and i think he was taking it as if it was cocaine, i.e. big lines, your only supposed to do very small lines of mdma cuz it's properly potent stuff. he's at home now but his family are pretty incompetent (okay thats a lie, they're fucking inept) at dealing with anything. they are worried about him but they seem to be treating him as if it's just a little breakdown from stress. his dad took him out for a drive the other day, apparently to get him to snap out of it. now, i'm no expert but this doesn't seem like the best way to deal with someone who's displaying all the symptoms of a paranoid schizophrenic or whatever. i mean me and my other flatmates have been on the internet to look up what his behaviour means and it seems to correlate to practically every well known mental disorder in the book. we're also pretty scared of him. he drinks a fair bit too and he gets violent when he's drunk with no provocation and he's a big guy. there's no way i could defend my self against him without a weapon and nor could my other flatmates who are all fairly petite girls. with his wildly unpredictable mental state the last week we were pretty worried for our own safety. he's gone home to his family now, so we are safe but his sister, who is also a bit of a headcase, comes back from holiday this weekend and she's is just going to flip. as i said, the family doesn't deal with things well and they tend to blow minor things out of proportion. imagine how they are going to deal with this.

not entirely sure what i'm after with this post. maybe some comments, observations or maybe someone could relate to me any similar experiences they might have had because i just don't know how to react to this. it's simply mental.


Arm yourself man! Batton down the hatches! Sharpen the bayonets!

Yarr, thread hijack!


Is he coming over to play anytime soon with a big duffel bag with sharp, protruding objects in it?

Arm yourself man! Batton down the hatches! Sharpen the bayonets!

Yarr, thread hijack!


Is he coming over to play anytime soon with a big duffel bag with sharp, protruding objects in it?
when i said i can't defend myself against him without a weapon i wasn't implying that i wish i had a weapon to do so with - there's enough knives in the kitchen that would suffice. the fact is that as much as i dislike him and am frightened by his violence when drunk and his current mental state i wish him no harm at all. i would rather run away from him than fight back. besides, there's a police station less than 100m down the road from my flat.

Maybe he's the sane one, and it's the rest of us that are crazy. ;)

when i said i can't defend myself against him without a weapon i wasn't implying that i wish i had a weapon to do so with - there's enough knives in the kitchen that would suffice. the fact is that as much as i dislike him and am frightened by his violence when drunk and his current mental state i wish him no harm at all. i would rather run away from him than fight back. besides, there's a police station less than 100m down the road from my flat.

Well then as long as you can outrun him, you'll be fine. :)

Well then as long as you can outrun him, you'll be fine. :)
adrenaline does weird things like affect speed.

you could always change the locks, but it won't work if the sister doesn't see him as a threat.

you could always change the locks, but it won't work if the sister doesn't see him as a threat.

actually that might be a good plan. i'd rather not see her again either. anyway, it's a rented flat so we can't change the locks without the landlord's permition.

his sister seems to be completely blind to how much drugs he takes and how violent he is.

actually that might be a good plan. i'd rather not see her again either. anyway, it's a rented flat so we can't change the locks without the landlord's permition.

his sister seems to be completely blind to how much drugs he takes and how violent he is.
??? funny, our landlord (Real estate Company) allows us to change the locks as long as we provide them with a key... oh well. I still say alert the authorities.

Maybe he's the sane one, and it's the rest of us that are crazy. ;)
I believe and follow his teachings. Wo be to the unbelievers...

I believe and follow his teachings. Wo be to the unbelievers...

I read somewhere that an indiginous tribe in the U.S. successfully petitioned the government to be allowed to use a hallucinogen (peyote?), as it was part of their spiritual/religious practice.

So, if you start a religion based on some dude whacked out of his pumpkin on coke and more, and it catches on...

Get out of the flat and find flatmates whose families are more reality based than psycho boy and sis.

I read somewhere that an indiginous tribe in the U.S. successfully petitioned the government to be allowed to use a hallucinogen (peyote?), as it was part of their spiritual/religious practice.

So, if you start a religion based on some dude whacked out of his pumpkin on coke and more, and it catches on...

Last I heard it was unsuccessful.

actually that might be a good plan. i'd rather not see her again either. anyway, it's a rented flat so we can't change the locks without the landlord's permition.

his sister seems to be completely blind to how much drugs he takes and how violent he is.

Yes you can change the locks. As long as the landlord is given a set. In fact contact the landlord and voice your concerns....

my flatmate has actually gone crazy. like, properly basket-case mental. he believes he's jesus and that his dad is god.

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not entirely sure what i'm after with this post. maybe some comments, observations or maybe someone could relate to me any similar experiences they might have had because i just don't know how to react to this. it's simply mental.

Hmmm.... I'm with JuNii. Change the locks and report him.

That having been said, this reminds me of my Buddhist teacher's stories about hitchhiking around BC as a hippie in the '60s with a crazy friend who thought he was Jesus. The long and the short of it was he was a nicer guy while he thought he was JC.

I read somewhere that an indiginous tribe in the U.S. successfully petitioned the government to be allowed to use a hallucinogen (peyote?), as it was part of their spiritual/religious practice.

So, if you start a religion based on some dude whacked out of his pumpkin on coke and more, and it catches on...

That would be primarily the Native American Church. There is a specific law - the "American Indian Religious Freedom Act" (http://www.lectlaw.com/files/drg25.htm). IIRC, there are offshoots, but one might have trouble convincing the authorities that a church built around this guy is legit. ;)

write up a list of incidents and symptoms like you did in the first post. the authorities are going to need "proof" in order to take him in for testing. his parents will tell whoever comes to the door that he is just worn out and is fine now.

if you have a local mental health clinic, try calling them. they will either let you know the best course of action or it will become their problem to deal with (depending on local law)

Get out of the flat and find flatmates whose families are more reality based than psycho boy and sis.
yep, luckily we're doing that anyway so this will probably all blow over.

write up a list of incidents and symptoms like you did in the first post. the authorities are going to need "proof" in order to take him in for testing. his parents will tell whoever comes to the door that he is just worn out and is fine now.

if you have a local mental health clinic, try calling them. they will either let you know the best course of action or it will become their problem to deal with (depending on local law)

well his home town is down in lincolnshire in england while we're up in edinburgh so there is really little we can do in terms of getting him sectioned now. we probably won't have to deal with this until his sister gets back from holiday. i can just see her balming us for it.