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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I unfortunately suspect a mental health issue.  I lived through my brilliant brother becoming increasingly focused on something to the point were it took over his life.  When the hallucinations started was when my parents were finally able to take action.  This happened during college, so he was away and we only had glimpses.  Until we didn't.  He was eventually diagnosed as schizophrenic. I really hope that isn't the case for your son, bc being hyper religious would be a much better end.  Good luck.[/quote]

I had a friend (he passed away a few years ago) who was apparently a functioning schizophrenic. Very intelligent and musically gifted but worked low-paid jobs all his life. Mostly his schizophrenia (this was the opinion of his family including a brother who was a physician) was under wraps because he was quiet and kept to himself, but it came out in his writings (he did a lot of writing). He had been raised Catholic, catholic schools, etc, he and his 3 brothers all turned away from religion as adults, but he went through a stretch of about 5 years when he cut off contact with people he knew after getting drawn back into Catholicism through a coworker who was very involved with the church. He found himself going to daily Mass and started looking into studying for the priesthood. Reason he cut off people was that they weren't Catholic and he believed he was not allowed to talk to them. Eventually he decided that the coworker was actually trying to carry out a sort of psychic abduction, he quit his job and moved to a different town after a confrontation with the suspected "abductor" led to a visit from the local sheriff suggesting that he stay away from the other guy. He resumed out acquaintance after this was all over, and spent the next several years writing about the psychic abduction.

But bipolar disorder can also lead to such obsessions. [/quote]

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