We email each other several times a week. Today I got a ‘message undelivered’ reply to the last email I sent him . He has the worst kind of delusions, not because of severity - but because they’re of the non bizarre possibly plausible type. He can be very rational and supportive over something like the teeth I’ve had extracted, and yet at the same time is delusional about his neighbours/other tenants.
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Try sending it again.
If it’s still undeliverable you’ll have to contact him some other way.
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Thanks for the support- NOT. 
Sorry to hear that @firemonkey
If you sent it on a mobile device might be worth resetting the network settings and trying again?
Really hope he is safe
I use a laptop.It’s not a problem my end. According to my sister who lives near him he’s convinced others in his block of flats are trying to force him to leave . When he emails me they’re a mix of good support re the extractions that were done, reminiscing about the past, interlaced with non bizarre paranoia. He wasn’t coming across as full blown psychotic. Had even said he needed to talk to his care coordinator.
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Sorry to hear that @firemonkey . Is he medicated?
He’s on medication, but I’m not sure he always takes it. This was from him to me on the 16th. I think quite a few of us have experienced similar. ’ I rang the mental health nurse said I was having another physchotic episode but did not speak to her directly only the appointments front desk I got 5th September I accepted that but was so pissed off its 2/3 weeks away ? So I’ve got to suffer being delusional and paranoid , and even then she’ll have to assess me then work out the right med’
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pretty much what its like with schizophrenua
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It seems unless you scare them, they don’t react in good time
Very rubbish situation
I hope they can help him more once they see him
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I’m sorry this is happening. Is there another way to check up on him? Like maybe a police welfare check???
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I’m not sure about such a check, but it sounds like good advice. My sister lives near him, but he ignored her completely i.e pretended not to hear her when she knocked/pressed his buzzer. Things hadn’t been helped by my brother in law, who can be very blunt, shouting at my brother because he was smoking just outside - and smoke was supposedly coming into their house . My brother stormed out of their house when that happened. Ramped up his paranoia big time.
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A welfare check is when you call the police and ask them to make sure a person is ok.
They go to their residence and talk to them to see if they’re ok.
They’re especially willing to do this if a person is physically disabled or mentally disabled (mentally ill or challenged)
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A welfare check is a good idea
What I might do first @firemonkey is to get your daughter to contact the MH services to raise a concern with them
They might listen to her?
I am sure you have experienced in your old location how the patient can be disregarded very easily
From what you posted before, sounds like she is very good at dealing with the services
Would that be an option?
It’s an option but not a strong one. She has had very little interaction with my sister and even less with my brother. Hence I think my sister who lives near him is better placed to do that.
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Think it’s worth a shot to see if it can help
My concern about having a welfare call is that he might not take it well
Whereas a gentle push on the MH team might work
I don’t disagree with you on that score.
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Have you managed to get hold of him today?
By phone isn’t a realistic option as we haven’t phoned each other in very near to 7 years . I tried when I first moved, but he never answered. We communicate via email.I will ask my sister if she’s seen or heard from him.
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He’s seeing his nurse on Thursday. My sister will be with him.
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Great I hope they can help
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