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RE: Mental Health... - 9/25/2008 4:15:15 PM

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If he suffers from bipolar depression, then he could be between a manic and a depressive state. He could also be suffering from unipolar depression. Asperger's or high functioning autism are possible diagnoses.

Tell him to get to a good psychologist for diagnosis and therapy plus a referral to a psychiatrist.

Unless he's deemed at high risk of harming himself or others, I doubt such a situation as the court mandating seizure of his collection would occur. If he is afraid of this however, the simplest solution is to ask a good friend to keep them safely away until his doctor(s) say he is stable. Because the court won't seize them if he has already shown the good judgment of locking them away from himself while he gets needed help.

Years ago I was asked to hold a friend's handguns until he was less depressed. He took them back in about six months.

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RE: Mental Health... - 9/25/2008 4:29:17 PM

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There is not enough information presented here to really know what is happening to this man mentally and emotionally.

Is the way he is feeling a long term situation or something relatively new? Is he stable or have mood swings? Does any outside influence change the way he feels?

You should be able to call the local Hotline or Crisis Line in your area for recommendations on local resources. I advise caution due to the circumstances you mention below.

If he starts talking about hurting himself or others then it is time to get professional help ASAP.

He's stable, but it's been a steady decline going on for a few years now. He blows off dates that some our mutual girlfriends has set up for him, and often cancels or fails to show up at social events. He's very safe with his weapons, has a CCW and never threatened anyone. (He'd joke and roughhouse, but never seriously) I think he's more afraid of the stigma and paper trail of having actually seen a mental health professional, and is convinced that just seeing one will bring more scrutiny than he wants.

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RE: Mental Health... - 9/25/2008 4:41:49 PM

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It sounds logical.

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RE: Mental Health... - 9/25/2008 7:44:29 PM

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He's stable, but it's been a steady decline going on for a few years now. He blows off dates that some our mutual girlfriends has set up for him, and often cancels or fails to show up at social events. He's very safe with his weapons, has a CCW and never threatened anyone. (He'd joke and roughhouse, but never seriously) I think he's more afraid of the stigma and paper trail of having actually seen a mental health professional, and is convinced that just seeing one will bring more scrutiny than he wants.

I don't think there's much of a stigma anymore about seeing a mental health professional...people only need to know what he decides to tell them. I don't understand what kind of scrutiny he's afraid us, as long as he's an adult...

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RE: Mental Health... - 9/26/2008 7:24:43 AM

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I agree there is zero stigma with see a professional. Hell, I consider my psychiatrist my savior in some ways, after years of battling (literally) depression and just hating people in general, we found a med combo that works (hurray! first one in years!) and I am actually talking to a therapist, something I would never think of doing before. Just be there for him, and gently nudge him to see someone, there is a little law called hippa that says they can't reveal info unless you ok it.

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RE: Mental Health... - 9/29/2008 5:51:23 PM

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there is a little law called hippa that says they can't reveal info unless you ok it.

I told him that, and he comes back with "there's legal, and there's what people do." I think he does have a point, but I think he's watched too many reruns of Law & Order where the prosecution almost unfailingly gets convictions on the slightest of circumstantial or even inadmissable evidence.

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RE: Mental Health... - 9/29/2008 6:08:29 PM

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Beware of medications though, they seem the cure all in this modern day, but they are most definately not a cure all, or even in some cases a cure for the original complaint. Take SSRI's for example, I believe they are licensed for human use, but what they actually do in the long term is not yet known, they in their action mess with the body chemistry and with body chemistry, everyone's is different. Meds by all means, but the right meds for the complaint and with that other therapies as drugs on their own just serve to, in many cases round off the edges a little.

SSRI's though I read somewhere, that come twenty years time they might even be unlicensed for human use when the long term effects become apparent.

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