23 People Witnessed Horrible Mental Breakdowns

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My roommate in college one day just snapped. Got really paranoid & started lashing out. She wouldn’t sleep & said she was afraid someone would try to come in the room & take advantage of her. The stuff she was saying just didn’t make sense. Her mom eventually came down & I guess she was making a scene with her on campus. Campus police came & she ended up getting in a fight with them & kicked a window out of one of their cars. This all happened over the course of a few days. She was hospitalized for a while & had to leave school. I never saw her again.

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Had a friend who was the nicest guy. Polite, hard worker, rarely drank and only in moderation. He never cursed, had a great relationship with everybody, and I don’t think I ever saw him get mad. I was at his place one day with his roommates when he got home from work. He yelled at us to “shut the fuck up”, he went to the fridge and grabbed two beers, pounded those, slammed the fridge, went to his room and slammed the door. His roommate goes to check on him, to see what’s wrong. His roommate also happens to be a paramedic. He quickly diagnosed the problem as physiological, we zip-tied his hands, threw him in the car and sped to the hospital. He was diagnosed with a brain aneurism and put into a medically induced coma. While the family was notified and the debate was had over whether surgery was appropriate, he passed away.

19.

I used to be a cop. One day, we got a call from a lady that her schizophrenic brother was off his meds & acting crazy. We went over there & pretty quickly determined that we needed to get him into custody & take him to the hospital to be committed for a psych eval. He had completely destroyed the apartment. He was screaming at all sorts of things. He was talking in mostly gibberish. While we were there trying to figure out the best way to get him to come with us he looked at me & started screaming in pain. He started begging me to stop. After a few minutes, we were able to figure out that he thought I was shooting laser beams out of my eyes at him & apparently they were quite painful. So, I told him that I would put my sunglasses on & they would stop the laser beams from getting him but he would have to go to the hospital with us. He agreed.

20.

Girl in high school just went completely nuts one day. Starting spouting off about how she was God’s chosen one. She then got on the ground and started eating the grass. Some girl tried to help her up and get her to stop, she snapped at her like a rabid dog.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.