Crazy

My roommate is crazy. And I'm not just saying it, he really is. And I'm confident in my diagnosis, I've seen crazy before, and while not as extreme, this is, without a doubt, it. And let me say this, it is FUCKING ANNOYING. He will not shut up, he feels the need to tell me everything on his mind (incoherent streams of thought, pointless, misguided, uninformed...kind of like this blog!...but I digress) , he has almost no filter between his head and his mouth. I say almost because he told me he felt like cussing out a guy and refrained, so apparently he hasn't completely lost control.

He listens to no one, he feels compelled to constantly engage me in conversation but anything I say fails to register with him. He tells me he has figured people out, gives me his bogus theories about human nature.

He's fucking nuts, hes getting into shit in public even, hes had incidents, I'll leave it at that. Today he tells me, rather writes on a paper and shows me, that the government is tracking him. I'm not making it up, cliche as fuck too, no one says hes the smartest guy on the block...yea in all probability hes probably the dumbest. But back to the point, he refused to talk about it out loud, would only write it down, if I said something that kind of hinted at the government listening or him "catching on to them" his eyes would get huge and he would just shake his head in fear basically. So I played along, asked him since when he has been kicking this theory around in his head, he told me about two weeks, which, coincidentally, is how long we've been at school this quarter and also when I've realized something is off with this guy. So I dunno what happened to him over break. Somethin happened tho, iono if it was drugs, iono if its just some natural imbalance, but he is, without a doubt, nuts.

I havent confronted him about it, appaently he has been advised to go see a therapist, I also highly reinforced this sentiment, telling him its natural and that I was even considering it myself (actually am still considering it, it is free), but for some reason I get the feeling he will not go. Last night he was up til like 4:30 painting. And by painting I mean mixing colors on a paper until you have a sheet of paper the color of shit. Literally. And the whole fucking time he didn't stop talking about colors and how it makes him feel, sorry how it makes EVERYONE feel, since in his own little world he can't seem to understand that some people feel differently than him.

It's painful, and my other roomate isn't here so I have to be the one to put up with this nut job. My other roomate is kinda retarded socially (like I'm one to talk), so he kinda goes along with the crazy talk as if it were a normal discussion. He kind of likes those kind of abhorrently annoying speculations on life where he can attempt to be "witty" (he's not, if you could create the computer nerd archytype, it would be this guy. seriously it makes me sad, the only difference is maybe some computer nerds are smart, this guy is a SC student...alrite I digress yet again).

My problem here is what to do. How long do I put up with this? When do I phone housing office requesting a change? When do I phone the cops to haul this crazy off? I'm reluctant to do it now because even though it is apparent somthing is off, he isn't in the deep end yet, and he has said he will get help (though again, doubt it, how many crazy people actually get help out of their own will). Though on the flip side I don't want it to escalate to the point where he does go off the deep end and I have to go find help for my sake as much as his. It is, needless to say, an uncomfortable situation to be in. I'll say this, if he becomes so annoying that it becomes a hindrance to my education, he is gone. I have been working hard this year, no fucking way some wack job fucks it all up for me.