Hello All,

A few weeks ago I got a call from my son's landlord. He had not been seen in several days and was not answering his cell phone, his emails, or knocks on his door. About a week earlier, people had seen him but said he looked out of it and was unsociable. Long story short - one of his close friends saw him walking downtown and was able to get him into the car with her. He was very paranoid and delusional. He was telling her and me that he believed that there were people in towns all over world being killed and that Google was in on it. He said the coroner's in his little town he lived in were covering up autopsy reports and saying people had died in boating accidents or natural deaths when they really had been tortured. He also said he could not talk to black people. He said that he believed the people that were coming to his door were other people disguised as his friends and as long as he stayed in his apartment he was safe. He also said that he could not answer his cell phone because if he did or listened to messages, then family members would be hurt. We tried to get him to the hospital but he said the doctors were in on this also. He said his computer's router had been contaminated. he said another friend knew all about this but that if he talked to his friend and the friend said it was all not true, then he would see a doctor. The friend told him none of this was true. We finally got my son into a hospital's mental health Ward where he has been for the last 10 days. About 5 weeks before he started having all these delusions he had been doing some heaving drinking and took some sort of drug (may have been rock cocaine). He was also working 18 hour days on the computer doing web development work. I feel like the combination of the drug trip, alcohol and excessive work got his brain all messed up, but is also possible that these or some thoughts like this have been going on for a while. I spoke with him yesterday (he is still in the hospital) and he said he felt safe there. The doctors have put him on an anti-psychotic medication and he has been in some group counseling and one on one talks with the doctors. He says that he still somewhat believes all this stuff he thought is true. I guess what I am wondering is with the help in counseling, medication, etc. can he rationalize that what he has been thinking is not true? Thanks for your help and input giving me some insight into this.