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can you help--with corrections

Postby tonya » Mon May 30, 2005 2:15 am

my previous post had many typos...i am sorry. i was rushing and upset. here it is again.
My boyfriend of 20 years, who is in his 40s, first started to experience mental problems around his 40th birthday. Many things happened all at once: he went of a high-protein (severe--no carbs at all for a month) diet, takes self-treating a yeast infection with high oral dosages of lamasil (purchased in Mexico), got involved in a major lawsuit (it can be viewed online, it was a class action), received a death threat (probably from those in lawsuit, but we never found out), and lastly was a witness to a major crime that involved a high profile figure. His mother I am sure suffered from the illness, but he refuses to believe it. And he has gone from thinking his friends and family were betraying him to now it is the government torturing him, so much so he has relocated (for now) to Canada. And of course is having problems there. In these 4 years, he has lost his mother, uncle and grandmother (and of course, feels the governement had a hand in their deaths). He never exhibited any of these problems before and was a high-functioning person prior. And some of his complaints and fears turned out to have merit (ie death threat). I know they say the disease tends to affect people in their 20s, but can someone 40 have it trigeted by a chemicle imbalance caused by medications and diet? I can not get him to seek help. I am afraid he might take his own life. Any advise. PLEASE!
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Postby Pancake » Mon May 30, 2005 3:33 am

i dont really know what could cause anything, but if it runs in his family then its possible he has something, have you ever talked about what he might have? or has he brought up anything? (do you have an idea what it is?) i think the best thing you could do is get him to a psychiatrist or psychologist, dont try to tell him hes wrong about the government is against him because he most likely wont blieve you and coudl cause him to get angry at you...tell him you just want him to go to somebody just to talk
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Postby Pancake » Mon May 30, 2005 5:09 pm

consider_this, B12 isn't some magical medicine that cures everything in the world...
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Postby Pancake » Tue May 31, 2005 3:22 am

i dont know what you mean by that because you always tell everybody, well it sounds like your trying to convince everybody that that is their problem...
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