Reply #14: that is 1000 times more likely to be the case [View All]

my own brother (bipolar paranoid schizophrenic with delusions) did something almost identical to this situation. fortunately, it was on a bus, not a plane, and when the police came they didn't shoot him.

what my brother said was that the lights on the dashboard were part of a bomb, but not to worry because he knew how to diffuse it and he would save everybody.


i can understand mental illness can cause sufferers to FEAR that they might be a VICTIM of a terrorist attack.

i cannot undertstand mental illness that can cause sufferers to think that they themselves are the terrorist.

if the guy mentioned 'bomb' at all, he probably thought he was an intended VICTIM of a terrorist attack. that's 1000 times more plausible than the notion that he thought he was suddenly a terrorist.