Fears mount over missing Webroot founder

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I hope Mr Thomas turns up OK.

Poor chap

There's been a lot of focus recently on the 'funny' aspects of Bipolar Disorder, e.g. wild, impulsive behaviour, apparently silly delusions, etc. Unfortunately there hasn't been much talk of the dark side; BD sufferers have a significantly higher suicide rate than the general population, in fact up to 1 in 3 will kill themselves according to some studies here in the UK.

I also believe that the US doesn't have the same sort of powers to allow an unwell individual at risk to be 'sectioned' to a psychiatric hospital for treatent, which is unfortunate in this case.

AC because I'm a sufferer too and there's just too much stigma associated with mental illness

hmm

"According to his wife, Thomas is suffering from a dangerous set of delusions"

So she left him alone to meet his mother, cause nothing like meeting your mother would spark off wild delusions...

Oh they have the powers to detain and enforce 'treatment'

hence organisations like this:

http://www.mindfreedom.org/shield

If the guy wants to go walk about then he should be allowed to do so.

It wouldn't surprise me if after 30+ years of not being diagnosed with a disease that is supposedly genetic, that the previous run in with the psychiatric profession did not lead to the feelings of paranoia he may or may not be currently experiencing.

A refusal of treatment, does not mean psychiatric drugs were not forcibly injected into him, it just means he refused after the previous incident to take medication. Quite a lot of those drugs have been linked to akathisia, and tend to promote the same symptoms of the psychiatric diagnosis, especially when administered in large doses.

amanfrommars

"Just because someone thinks about things differently does not always suggest an illness. Indeed ..."According to his wife, Thomas is suffering from a dangerous set of delusions. "He thinks everyone on the island is out to get him," Candis Thomas said, the Star Bulletin reports. "He thinks the military is involved, he thinks that aliens are involved, and he's just been in a real delusion state of being fearful." ...could apply to many who post here, but knowing the right algorithm to slip into the information processing line, soon sends the fear packing, leaving the way free for Living the Way IT is meant to be."

That was almost lucid

@ac

I also believe that the US doesn't have the same sort of powers to allow an unwell individual at risk to be 'sectioned' to a psychiatric hospital for treatent, which is unfortunate in this case.

Depends on the state.

POINT IN CASE

Only paranoid people can write excellent spyware detectors !

Mental Health isn't always the problem

I had a close childhood friend that was diagnosed as bipolar, manically depressed, and schizophrenic. But after 10 years on every experimental drug his family could find, some doctor finally bothered to run this blood for additional tests and, as it turns out, the guy was only diabetic. He's now a normal part of society, no thanks to the quacks that never even noticed his widely-varying blood sugar levels.

Sometimes, they're not out to get you, but they are out to sell you something. Sure hope someone checks the poor guy's blood sugar if they find him hiding.

@ Vincent Hempe: You're right on the money. All security-related folks will eventually wind up running around Hawaii naked with the black helocopters just over the next hill...certainly the most paranoid, obsessive lot on the planet.

Webroot, bootnet, Its the same

No one is safe in this fuckin Cyperworld.

My kises from the Neptune's Orbit.

Or let be realistic .. It's from the edge of Andromeda's Galaxy.