In article <9310261923.AA29868@netcom.netcom.com>, Timothy C. May <tcmay@netcom.com> wrote: : got fed up with his obvious lack of social skills and his descent into : paranoid schizophrenia. He is, as a former girlfriend would diagnose his : condition, a "borderline personality." There's always a danger in diagnosing when one isn't an expert (especially when the experts tend to confuse *themselves*) but I think of myself as a well informed layman and, as such am going to comment on this. Detweiler is not likely schizophrenic anything. That's a rather different thing than he's appeared. Nor is he a borderline personality, which is also a specific diagnosis. On the evidence he is a paranoid personality or paranoid psychotic. The reason I'm writing is to point out two things: paranoids are rarely cured, only controlled, and they can be physically dangerous. It is entirely possible that he means those death threats.