Hi, I have a friend whom I think is suffering from DD grandiose type. I am very concerned for him, he is 37 years old and this seems to have begun about 4 years ago since that is when he started to go downhill, moved in with his parents and will not work, says that God does not want him to. We live a few States from each other but we email one another and speak on the phone. At first I just thought that he became overzealous Christian, but then I started to really question the things he would write and started thinking that he seriously believes what he is saying that this has really happened to him. I included some of the things he says, this is just a small sample there are many many more. I have no idea what to do, I know that he is not getting any help and his family is just ignoring it. I feel he needs help and if I have to intervene i will, for his own sake, i am deeply concerned. Any advice is greatly appreciated!
Some of the things he says are:
"in my walk I see it as this, step one to one million, along the way there were those that walked with me every step I took, step one, one said I cannot go that way and turned right, another said I cannot go that way and turned left, any said well we made it this far lets keep going and every step I took the same thing happened.
I walked all the way to the throne of God and when I got there I turned around and saw no one following me, My Father asked me" what troubles you Son", I turned and said to Him so many believed and yet I am the only one here?
"he said well you made it here and now I shall fulfill the desires of your heart" ... I thought less then a second about it and said, " I would like to go back and find all of those that got lost along the way".
So I gave up my eternal reward to seek those that were never worthy of it in the first place?
My Father said to me, worry not Son they may eventually find their way, and I said to Him how can they do this unless the one that made the way is there to guide them?
Yes my eternal reward ... being in eternity with my father, ruling and reinging at His side to come back to this world to be a beacon of light to those who are in darkness and to those that are blinded by the light, ie those that went right and those that went left
hopefully in reading that message you can understand when I say I was crucified into the body of Christ and hold thetestimony of Jesus Christ.
what I felt when I stood there was that if not a one had made it there with me I felt that I had left a part of me behind, the rib that He took from me and made a woman for me, feeling incomplete before the Lord our God is an uncomfortable feeling, even though He told me I was perfect in His sight
So I guess my reason in staying was to find my rib as I preached His message and His gospel ... knowing that one day that what I had left would return to me.
its the one way that after all that has happened to me, that I could remain and still feel human."