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How do you help a friend who you’re 90% positive that they’re having a psychotic episode, but he thinks everyone or a group of people wants to harm

Him/put him in a body bag. I’ve told him where he can get help, he wants to prove his sanity, but it seems more like a mental breakdown. He’s a friend and a neighbor so even if I want to I can’t cut him off. I don’t do that to friends especially with a mental health problem. I’ve had a few psychotic episodes myself and thought an organization was after me. If he’s going through a psychotic episode I know the hell he’s living in. I don’t think my neighbors are out to get him. He seems to shift the blame on one person in the apartment building to others whom we don’t know. How do I help him?
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PoeticPlay · 51-55, M
Keep a protective watch over him.
From a safe distance.

Keep talking to him in order to let him know that he is not by himself.
That he has someone who is willing to help.

Emphasis on listening to what it is he is trying to communicate.

Try to assess his physical health by asking him how he has been taking care of his needs daily
Like food, shower, clothes, sleep.
Get him to give his mind a moment to do a self check. A distraction from think about harm from elsewhere.

Show him that you are standing by willing to give him help if he asks for it.
And if you are really willing to step up and bare the responsibility of being a life line.

This might help the both of you.

It helps me.
Good luck.