This might get a bit long winded, but I need to get this out. I am seriously freaked out over here. Please tell me what you think. Me I think paranoid schizophrenia. But I am not a doctor. OK, let me just get this out please.

So I go to work tonight, work my shift like normal, and a friend comes in. One that I have known since working at the shop. Became really good friend. So he comes in, and drives me and my other friend (he has known her longer then me. Both people were regulars long before I started working there) he kicks her out and tells me to stay. It is already starting to get weird.

So now that she is out of the car he starts showing me text messages on his cell phone. All of them seeming like normal messages. Then he asked me if I know a Simone and a Pier. They wore black suits. Simon is in white while Pier in black. I was like no. Then he was like well they are part of it. Part of what I asked. Then he asked me where my cell was. I pulled it out of my pocket. He was like turn it off. They can hear us through the cell phones. Then he asked me if I remembered the time he called me to ask me if I called him. He said my number showed up on his phone. That the people in the black suits were all part of two biker gangs. Hells Angels and Satan's Choice from the U.S. But that they were all over watching him.

At this point we had driven to a coffee shop. He bought me a tea. I do not drink tea, but he really insisted that I drink a tea. I was like whatever get me a freaking tea. So we get our tea, and he starts talking about his dog, saying that we cannot talk about the other thing because they could be listening. We get back into his truck and we drive to the local train station. At this point I am like what the f*ck. I was starting to get a little weirded out. This was NOT my friend.


He says, get out of the truck, we can't talk in here. And tells me to leave my cell phone. I am thinking to myself ummm you take me to a parking lot at a train station and tell me to leave my cell phone in the truck? But I did. Still wanting to see him as my friend. We walk out of the truck with our stupid tea. And he continues to talk to me again about the people in the white and black. Tell me that his current girlfriend is also apart of it and that she does things to him. I asked what kind of things? One time, he said, she stuck a needle in my are while I was sleeping. I asked, how do you know? You were sleeping. Because it did things to me I was like OK. He goes on, saying that they are all over (the blacks and whites) they are watching me and want to kill me. And that they could kill me if they found out that he was talking to me. I am thinking. REALLY wanting my phone ore people around.

I started looking around me trying to see how many people would see if he tried something. He started telling me that when he went to Mexico, with his girl friend he said she took him to place. Places that was not nice. He was like, they are going to kill me Melissa they are everywhere. They are following you. Warning me to be careful. Then he FINALLY drove me home. The whole way though he told me to be careful. He tells me to hold on before I opened my door. Then he gets out and opens the door for me. Helps me out and hugs me for what seemed to be forever. The whole time say that we need to be careful. Then he lets go and looks at me and says who knows you wear a lot of black (looking at my black hoodie that I had on), you could be one of them and I just don't know. He goes on not saying that you are, just e careful. And he gets into his truck and leave.


OK, now I am SO SO SO sorry that was SOOOO long. But please WTF, tell me what you think. PLEASE.

Schizophrenia, I had a friend with it and he totally flipped out one night and became a different person and tried to kill me...

Glad you weren't hurt!

He needs to get on meds before he hurts someone!

You are right...He is not your friend anymore. What he believes and what is reality are 2 different things now...He needs to get help What he described Black and Whites sounds like something Good vs Evil

That IS really freaky. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Scary!!!

There was even one point of the conversation where he said he was parked out front of my building about to text me to help him. But a message came up on his phone saying ,"don't so it!" . And the all of a sudden there was about 30 people in white and black walking towards his truck.

The good and evil thing is what I was thinking as well.

My friend that had it told me that the tatoos on my hands were spawning demons and he had to kill me to make it stop!

Schizo is some freaky sh!t

I have been trying to analyze it in my head. I am no doctor. But here is what I have come up with so far.

I agree with the Writers Girl theory about the "Good and Evil" thing. Then I started to wonder with him mentioning all the time that they were going to kill him, and also saying at one point that he has to do something or they are going to kill him. Something about he has to sell his house and move in with his girl friend. Then he said either way they were going to kill him. Then he started to think of places where he could send his dog (the most lovable German Shepard ever).

That hot me wondering if MAYBE he is contemplating suicide. Like I said I am no doctor just a theory.

woah.

i'd have him committed if i were you.

Individuals with paranoid schizophrenia and persecutory delusional disorder experience what is known as persecutory delusions: an irrational, yet unshakable, belief that someone is plotting against them. Persecutory delusions in paranoid schizophrenia are bizarre, sometimes grandiose, and often accompanied by auditory hallucinations. Delusions experienced by individuals with delusional disorder are more plausible than those experienced by paranoid schizophrenics; not bizarre, though still unjustified. Individuals with delusional disorder may seem offbeat or quirky rather than mentally ill, and, as such, may never seek treatment.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fourth edition (DSM-IV), the diagnostic standard for mental health professionals in the United States, lists the following symptoms for paranoid personality disorder:

-suspicious; unfounded suspicions; believes others are plotting against him/her
-preoccupied with unsupported doubts about friends or associates
-reluctant to confide in others due to a fear that information may be used against him/her
-reads negative meanings into innocuous remarks
-bears grudges
-perceives attacks on his/her reputation that are not clear to others, and is quick to counterattack
-maintains unfounded suspicions regarding the fidelity of a spouse or significant other

Give him 5 bucks and tell him "Thanks for the free entertainment".

He is showing so many of those symptoms. How do I help him?

If he is thinking about hurting himself or others you or someone else should call the hospital. It sounds like schizophrenia where his delusions sound real...If only to him.
grneyedldy has the right idea

Does he not have family in the same town? He needs treatment now rather than later. And treatment is no guarantee as this is an illness that will afflict him forever unfortunately.

Because of the inherent mistrust felt by paranoid individuals, they often must be coerced into entering treatment. As unwilling participants, their recovery may be hampered by efforts to sabotage treatment (for example, not taking medication or not being forthcoming with a therapist), a lack of insight into their condition, or the belief that the therapist is plotting against them. Albeit with restricted lifestyles, some patients with PPD or persecutory delusional disorder continue to function in society without treatment.


You may have to get a court order to keep him in treatment but this can be difficult to obtain most especially since you are not family. I would look in the yellow pages to try and find a number for a mental illness hotline/info to see what can be done to help him.

I think you need to have a plan for the next time you see him. He knows were you live and your place of employment. I would advise never being alone with him again at the very least. I think you better tell the other friend you work with what happened.

He would have to do something bizarre in public then the police would be called and he would be put into psychiatric lock down, then a judge would review for court ordered treatment.