What do you do if you have a relative, a brother or a cousin, maybe an aunt, who is having difficulty holding on to reality. This person sometimes appears rational and aware of their surroundings but in the next moment can fly off to a world of their own creation. Delusional, sometimes they think everyone is out to get them and flail madly at all around them in a paranoid frenzy, hurting themselves and anyone unfortunate enough to be near them. At other times they pout and moan because they can’t have their own way in a melancholic narcissism. The phantoms tormenting them do as much or more damage to themselves as they do to others. As the symptoms worsen the family is called together and tries to come up with a strategy to help the pathetic soul caught as it is in its own delirium, tortured by demons from the depths of its own psyche.
It is never an easy decision for the family. Parents remember the promise at the birth of their beloved child. The bright smile, the first tentative steps and missteps. Why did this happen? Where did they fail? Perhaps they were too permissive and indulgent. Perhaps if they had given their child more discipline he would be able to deal better now with his demons. But as it is he is out of control and drastic measures are called for. Institutionalization or at least constant tight supervision. And only the family as a whole can accomplish this. If we all don’t work together then the only other solution is to euthanize the suffering creature and even that will take the strongest of us together. It is always sad but if you truly love someone then you must do what is best for them no matter how difficult or painful.
It is time now for the world community to sit down together and decide how best to deal with our paranoid schizophrenic little sibling, the United States.
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