Reply #110: A tiny bit of background:

[Occam Bandage]

I have a degree in linguistics/speech-hearing-language sciences. I've done two years of directed study in physics too; that was my first interest in college. I did my grad work on clinical interaction with patients with language defects brought on by neurological defects. I'm not a professional, no, but I have enough background in physics to know when someone is confusing things I learned in high school, and I have enough background with people with disordered speech to know the signs that something is not right in someone's thought processes (and to be clear, this is not just a one-time thing with him; he has been becoming progressively more disordered over the past week). I am not qualified to offer treatments or diagnoses, but I am certainly qualified to say that something isn't right and that someone really ought to see a doctor.

I am not berating him. I am saying that he needs to recognize that his behavior is strongly indicative of mental-health issues and he needs to see a doctor--an actual mental-health professional--who can then diagnose him and offer treatment options. I am acting no differently than I would if a poster were posting pictures of a "cool-looking mole that's been growing" that was strongly reminiscent of melanoma. Part of my natural response to people saying "dude awesome mole" would be to correct that.