[steve_adams_86]

I would try to find out if he has recently begun taking antidepressants. I began a regimen last year and had side effects which sound quite similar to this.

Sometimes they are like night a day for people in a good sense. Sometimes they invoke a sort of mania and cause an acute crisis, like it did for me. I eventually learned about ‘suicide crisis syndrome’ and evidently new antidepressant prescriptions are at least somewhat correlated with this state.

Highly intelligent people seem to carry around a mild form of depression called dysthymia, which he might have sought to address with drugs.

Good luck. These things are extremely difficult. I know I was at my absolute worst when I was struggling, and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone (from my side or those who supported me).