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about the crazy guy on the bus ... without eyeballing him myself, I'd say Syc's guess about him being schizophrenic is probably correct (maybe bipolar with psychotic features if he keeps himself put together really well). He's likely just got a more interesting set of voices than many mentally ill clients. Delusions/voices related to a TV show (even one as wonderful as Star Trek) are VERY rare. It's usually more mundane stuff, like my family has been replaced by exact duplicates which are actually demons. I do have one guy we see coupla times a year who has Star Trek delusions, but they really go off into deep space and time travel and 9/11 and black helicopters ... not just Capt. Kirk is a man stuff.
I wouldn't be overly worried about him. He's interacting with his internal world for the most part, not the external one. The great majority of mentally ill people are nonviolent, and actually engage in violence at a lesser rate than the general population.
I'd worry more about the guy in the down jacket and the nikes who's seeming to pay WAY to much attention to his surroundings.
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