About four years ago my dad went insane. Actualy insane, I'm not using that idiomatic expression. He became utterly and irrationally paranoid. This was in the midst of the Kerry vs Bush elections and he was obsessed with the Bohemian Grove/Zionist/Police State conspiracy theory crap. He turn his back emotionaly on me and my brothers. He stopped trusting everything and everyone. And taking into account that he is pretty much a rage-aholic before this change in character, this was the straw that broke the camels back for me. I suppose the actual instant gave up on my father all together, was when he realized that no one believed him, to which he muttered bitterly " You'll be sorry that you're wrong one day." Meaning that he hopes that his dark and twisted fantasies come to life and torment and destroy the world so he can be right. So that brings me to the point of not talking to my dad, pretty much ever again.
A few months before he became an mental and emotional wreckage that once resembled a man, he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, when he went to veterans clinic to have an infected in-grown hair checked out.
Last night I was sitting around a fire talking with some friends talking about anything and everything. Someone brought up the topic of people having so much faith in technology that they almost consider it magic. I reply to this comment by noting that my father believes that the government is able to and does watch everthing we do with satellites and phone bugs. I get the reply of "You know there are medications for that." I just laugh and nod in agreement and the conversation went where ever it went. Probably to Hawaii.
But that got me thinking, I had never really researched paranoid behavior, much less what types of medications a paranoid person would take to control their behavior. I had been so concentrated on completing my senior year of high school at the time and deciding what to do with my life, so I can get away from the crazy place I had come to know as home, that I never bothered looking in to what would "fix" my dad.
I went online today and googled "paranoia medication." One of the first entrees ( http://www.depression-guide.com/paranoia.htm ) I found noted that insulin is used in treating paranoia. Like I said, a few months before he crazy he was diagnosed type 2 diabetes. I have wonder now about the possibility that the introduction of insulin to his body like that could have brought about the paranoia. Thereby having the completely opposite effect.
A few months before he became an mental and emotional wreckage that once resembled a man, he was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, when he went to veterans clinic to have an infected in-grown hair checked out.
Last night I was sitting around a fire talking with some friends talking about anything and everything. Someone brought up the topic of people having so much faith in technology that they almost consider it magic. I reply to this comment by noting that my father believes that the government is able to and does watch everthing we do with satellites and phone bugs. I get the reply of "You know there are medications for that." I just laugh and nod in agreement and the conversation went where ever it went. Probably to Hawaii.
But that got me thinking, I had never really researched paranoid behavior, much less what types of medications a paranoid person would take to control their behavior. I had been so concentrated on completing my senior year of high school at the time and deciding what to do with my life, so I can get away from the crazy place I had come to know as home, that I never bothered looking in to what would "fix" my dad.
I went online today and googled "paranoia medication." One of the first entrees ( http://www.depression-guide.com/paranoia.htm ) I found noted that insulin is used in treating paranoia. Like I said, a few months before he crazy he was diagnosed type 2 diabetes. I have wonder now about the possibility that the introduction of insulin to his body like that could have brought about the paranoia. Thereby having the completely opposite effect.