He is a professional athlete so he's in great physical shape. At the beginning of this two months ago, he was sleeping 12 to 16 hours per day. Now he is sleeping about 8 to 10 hours per day. His diet could be improved, and I'm working on that. I plan to ask the doctor to test him for vitamin and mineral deficiencies.

As for lifestyle, he doesn't have one since the paranoia set in. He rarely leaves the house and prefers his bedroom. At first, I was able to get him out with me each day---canoeing, hiking or something. Then he got the flu and regressed even further. Got into the habit of being inside and started saying he didn't feel like going anywhere.

I can't seem to motivate him to leave the house. But he is making progress. For the first 6 weeks, he had to have my husband or myself in the same room with him at all times. Over the past two weeks, we can now be in other rooms. He can have the windows open now, and he's starting to use the computer more as long as it's not hooked up to the internet. We need to work on phones and cell phones BIG TIME because he's not going to be able to function in life without using phones.

He went from living independently for two years in another state a thousand miles away to rarely leaving his bedroom here.

I'm in the process of trying to find an appropriate therapist, who won't cause more harm than good, that he can relate to and tolerate. Easier said than done, but I'll find the person. I'm so hopeful that he finally agreed that he would like to talk to a therapist.