re: #20 Romantic Heretic

He is.

I’m no shrink but I’ve encountered enough of these paranoid loons in my journeys through the mental health care system to recognize someone with only a nodding acquaintance with reality.

I’m no shrink either, but I’ve encountered paranoid personalities and people with some pretty serious mental issues just in the course of my life.

I worked for awhile as a bartender at a now defunct strip club in Portland, OR; it was…….interesting. There were two young ladies, dancers, who were distinctly suffering from some kind of severe delusional thinking, as in “The CIA is trying to kill me” to “There’s a huge conspiracy directed against me by the Bilderbergs because I know the truth of this world”, etc. There were lesser issues to be dealt with; low self-esteem, abusive relationships, one I recall who I would say, in my non-professional opinion, was quite likely a psychopath.

This was in the mid 1990s, btw.