(May 8, 2010 at 6:15 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Judging from your previous remark, I'd have to ask: are you in a position to have him committed to a mental hospital? If he had just said that he sees Jesus regularly, I'd leave him to his own devices, but crying tears of bread? That's definitely grounds for commitment.
Yeah, it sounds like schizophrenia to me. Whether he could be forcibly committed or not is quite another matter. In the UK, someone needs to be assessed as suffering from a mental illness and as a danger to themself or to others before they can be 'sectioned' (detained under section 2 or 3 of the Mental Health Act- there are also other, more rarely used sections). The first bit is usually straightforward- the second bit isn't.
I don't know where Rwandrell lives, but I suspect that most western countries would have similar safeguards.
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mikhail Bakunin
A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything
Friedrich Nietzsche
