From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 07:02:39 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: My Views on the Detweiler Matter
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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.