His distrust of mental health professionals happened YEARS before the paranoia started a couple of months ago. The psychiatrist increased his dosage of Prozac too quickly and it caused suicidal thoughts. We stopped the med, informed the psychiatrist, and by the time we saw him a week later, he was only interested in covering his *** legally and wanted to institutionalize my son when he was no longer having suicidal thoughts because we stopped the Prozac.

This paranoia is a very new symptom in the past two months, and it's extremely possible for people with anxiety disorders and OCD to develop paranoia. He hasn't rationalized his paranoia. He knows it's irrational. His problem is that he doesn't trust his mind right now. His intrusive thoughts started racing for weeks on end without stopping, and he was going insane when he came to me for help because he was considering suicide because it was the only thing he felt could stop the horrifying intrusive thoughts. He is slowly getting better but still doesn't trust his mind.

I've made great strides with the diet now that his appetite is back. I'll try to get him to take supplements, but he feels he's already taking a lot of pills. In addition to the psych meds, he's also taking pain medicine (his wisdom teeth were removed two days ago) and allergy medicine. That's like 10 pills per day right now. Once he's done taking the pain meds, I can try to get him to take vitamins. I already talked to him about D since he's not drinking milk. He has other dairy products but they don't contain D.

I'll get him back out there into the big world. I've done it before. As with most people who have social anxiety, he can be a bit agoraphobic sometimes and keep his world small. But his sport season will be starting soon, and he's hoping to move out of state in a few months. It's a big relief he is starting to plan for the future. I'm a little nervous he's not ready for this season, but I haven't shared my worries because it might hinder him from progressing. Who knows, maybe he'll just snap out of it when it's time to get back to work.

Once he gets past this paranoia, he's going to be in better shape than he was for the past 7 years because he has been coping with OCD without medication all those years. Now he's finally on Zoloft and it's made a huge difference. His racing thoughts have completely STOPPED. His intrusive thoughts are now very rare, less than once a day, and he doesn't OCD about them for more than 15 minutes. This is way less than he has dealt with for years. I feel he really has a chance at having a peaceful mind once he trusts it again. He's such an amazingly strong person. He stopped trichotillomania by sheer willpower in the past. I really hope he pulls through this.

He's finally ready for therapy. After all of these years, he's ready. And he's not paranoid about therapists. He just doesn't trust like psychiatrists because he encountered one who abused his power. Nobody has ever considered his mistrust of psychiatrists to be paranoid because it's rooted in reality.

I've never told him this, but my sister experienced the same thing. She was voluntarily inpatient to adjust medication, and the psychiatrist relocated her to a floor with severely mentally ill people because she refused his treatment plan. She was living in a different state. My father had to go to the state she was in and higher a lawyer to get her out of the mental hospital. She was a perfectly sane, highly successful professional. There was no reason whatsoever for the psychiatrist to keep her there against her will.

Thank you for your ideas.