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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son has an MS in a tech field. Smart 1580 SAT kid, gifted, tons of friends, never misbehaved even as a toddler. Around age 27 he started saying his co-workers were laughing at his ideas during meetings (I didn't believe it). He took his passport on a day trip to DC. Why? In case he needed to flee to Canada on short notice (paranoia).

He also started doing a lot of book reading and posting philosophical stuff on SM that sounded similar to Luigi in that it was "deep", but to me, unintelligible. I'm a retired engineer, but had no idea what he was saying.

Then he went radio silent on me for almost a year.  Out of the blue he called, very manic and excited that he had the secret to world peace, blah blah.

I finally called my ex and he hopped on a plane. By the time he got there, our son was in a full on psychotic episode where he thought he was in a different dimension.

Thank goodness his roommate knew to call police trained in mental issues. He told the police his dad was really an imposter.

They took him to the psych hospital in Staunton.  Wonderful place where he stayed for a month.

His roommates told us our son and a friend had been smoking a lot of pot.  The psychiatrist dx him with some combo name of schizophrenia/bipolar and said the exact dx didn't matter, same meds.

She believed there is a link between pot and Schiz onset.  Either they turn to pot to handle  Sz symptoms, or possible pot usage can bring out Sz, which was lurking below the surface.

I was so grateful he didn't do something to get arrested during his psychotic episode, which had probably been brewing for a year.

Of course he went off the psych meds within 6 months. While he hasn't had a repeat episode in 6 years, I think he isn't smoking pot regularly.  However, he is now very under-employed, working part-time as an admin. He lives with his dad, so no pressure to pay bills.

I'm grateful he's "stable".  But boy, this story sounded a little too familiar to me.  This type of thing was my biggest fear.  I can't imagine how Luigi's parents and friends feel.[/quote]

NP and I can also relate.  I’m glad your son is “stable” and understand the quotes.  When all of this happened in the news, this was oddly similar to one of my siblings too.  I won’t get into too many details but similar enough.  He had a job, a house and in his late 20s went missing.  We had a little contact that became less and less and he eventually abandoned everything and was homeless for a long time.  There was a lot of drug use, hallucinations and paranoia.   He was in and out of our lives for years.  We didn’t know if we would find him again and if he would be dead or alive.  He is in in 40s now and also “stable” without having any episodes for years, clean now, but can’t hold a full time job any longer.  [/quote]

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