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If he said he was ok, what made you think he wasn’t?[/quote]

He seemed flatter. He was engaged with family but something seemed off. It’s difficult to pinpoint. But you probably know your child better than anyone. Listen to your intuition.[/quote]

This.  Look up "prodrome" bipolar and schizophrenia.

In retrospect that was exactly what my kid was experiencing but (I don't mean this to sound cruel or detached) he was always sort of a slacker, like from elementary school.  Once he was out of high school, we figured, "Whatever, he's 18-19, he doesn't want to go to family events, fair enough."  Smokes a lot of weed... I don't like it but pretty much every boy around here seems to... He was always off surfing, working, half-assing it at CC but turning in surprisingly decent grades, and we didn't see him too much.  Then it blew up one night and it became apparent we were dealing with something a lot bigger than just a slacker kid.  Once someone told me about prodromal symptoms, I read about it and it clicked into place.  But nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, right?[/quote]

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