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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I have a deeply psychotic lad living with me right now, hears voices sees things, is utterly convinced that a kid he lived next door to is plotting to steal his soul, but he is at the same time normal, essentially he is a normal person reacting to what he believes are real deeply frightening supernatural events.
He's on enough drugs to knock out a rhino but they are doing sod all to help him and the fact that they don't feeds into his delusions, he tells me when I tell him the voices are a symptom of his illness 'if I was psychotic the drugs would work therefore the voices must be real and you are lying to me'
Beyond my ability to cope with, I haven't slept properly in weeks while they look for a better placement for him, at the same time he's a desperately sad kid, his friends are avoiding him because he scares the bejesus out of every one now, but a year ago he was pretty much a normal kid.
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Thanks for this insight, it is near impossible to say what was going through this kids mind at the time of the murders. Part of me thinks that throwing the book at him is in the best interests of everyone, but a more logical empathetic part of me thinks that there is an obvious mental disorder which contributes to an individual having such delusions and the subsequent actions. Having worked with a number of people with severe substance abuse issues in the past (including alcohol in this) I have the feeling that this young man's mind may be gone no matter what is done with future treatments.