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Doug Taylor · March 21st, 2005, 16:34

Here's a little update. Friday was kind of #####ty for obvious reasons, fully wacked-out on Saturday, but Sunday was good and he was completely coherent, 'normal' and realizes that he's going to need some therapy. Today, was better than yesterday so we were afraid he was going to refuse therapy, however he agreed to psychiatric treatment.

But all in all, this is kind of weird, but the event was a 'net positive' because before he'd wouldn't go in to see a doctor about his delusions. But now he finally realizes that he needs help, is going to get it and has realized that we're not trying to hurt, but help him.

The hard part was that Al was very good at masking emotion. If you saw him, you'd see a 6'3, silver-haired 59 year old, good-looking, very socially smooth and engaging, extraordinarily intelligent gentleman with a Doctorate in engineering. But occasionally, he'd start talking about how the people he was living with in Virginia were CIA operatives (one actually was a long time ago), how there's this international crime ring that involves some German mafia alongside some secret Finnish (the family was from Finland) "illuminati" syndicate and stuff.

The hard part was when he was normal, he'd never talk about this stuff. But when he'd have an episode, enough of what he was saying actually had some truth to it (CIA, wife was from Finland, husband was from Germany) but the connections he was drawing were outlandish and he was making crazy extrapolations on reality.

Anyway, thanks for the support! I'm back in PHX taking care of stuff, Kristie's flying back from IAD this evening and Al's starting voluntary psychiatric therapy as we speak.

March 21st, 2005, 16:34	#14
Doug Taylor Agent Smith Join Date: Dec 1969 Location: KSDL Posts: 41,217 Blog Entries: 1	Re: Please say a prayer...any advice is welcome!! Here's a little update. Friday was kind of #####ty for obvious reasons, fully wacked-out on Saturday, but Sunday was good and he was completely coherent, 'normal' and realizes that he's going to need some therapy. Today, was better than yesterday so we were afraid he was going to refuse therapy, however he agreed to psychiatric treatment. But all in all, this is kind of weird, but the event was a 'net positive' because before he'd wouldn't go in to see a doctor about his delusions. But now he finally realizes that he needs help, is going to get it and has realized that we're not trying to hurt, but help him. The hard part was that Al was very good at masking emotion. If you saw him, you'd see a 6'3, silver-haired 59 year old, good-looking, very socially smooth and engaging, extraordinarily intelligent gentleman with a Doctorate in engineering. But occasionally, he'd start talking about how the people he was living with in Virginia were CIA operatives (one actually was a long time ago), how there's this international crime ring that involves some German mafia alongside some secret Finnish (the family was from Finland) "illuminati" syndicate and stuff. The hard part was when he was normal, he'd never talk about this stuff. But when he'd have an episode, enough of what he was saying actually had some truth to it (CIA, wife was from Finland, husband was from Germany) but the connections he was drawing were outlandish and he was making crazy extrapolations on reality. Anyway, thanks for the support! I'm back in PHX taking care of stuff, Kristie's flying back from IAD this evening and Al's starting voluntary psychiatric therapy as we speak.