>>And, some sarcasm must be allowed too. It helps us to express odd feelings, and helps us to recover. Note, some sarcasm, not a shit storm.
>For sure. If that helps, by all means go ahead.
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>>I wish him best.
>Thank you, Lutz. Mike, in his better days, would have appreciated that.
>So do I.
>I don't pretend to know what's ailing Mike, but I have seen two instances of people who behaved that way.
>The two people I saw close up with Mike's symptoms never accepted them no matter what anyone said.
>In a sense, it would have been been better for them if they had broken a leg - they would have seen it, accepted it and proceeded to have it fixed.
>However, in their cases powerful medications were required and both are now living diminished but safe and secure lives.
>Not what anyone would have wanted for them, but that's all that anyone can do for them now.
>Let's hope that someone leads Mike on a better path.

Good Morning Bill,

In a sense everybody with such problems (to be true, everybody) need society to got reflections. in a way we are Mikes mirror. I know nothing about Mike, but to sit alone will not help him.
As you wrote - a broken leg reveals itself to the patient. Mental problems must be torturing enough, and in most cases it needs close friends or a break down to put the idea and acceptance in ones mind. Or - the way I have done - one owns a strange analytical mind and is able to be true to oneself. Sometimes.
I have seen the ones where the clinic has hammered the idea in the mind of friends, I have seen groups of teenagers with experienced members that where able to talk others into seeking help.
Often a long treatment of psychotherapy started with a harsher cure in a clinic was able to put the people back into tracks - without psychopharmaceuticals. Those only hush over. A doctor told me once, psychopharmaceutical drugs are in 80% good if you don't have the will/power to start psychotherapy. (The other 20% are the once to much over the edge) As long as you might move yourself, suffer and dispense. There is no fast cure.

What everybody can do is reflect, carefull push back on tracks and bear it. If one is fast enough, sometimes mincing words to show different aspects of something.
If there is one thing, people really like to safely express there fears. Find a safe place for a while.