Posted this on another thread; fits here to:
I figured out what is going on here when the light bulb went on the day before yesterday. I heard on TV a commentator speaking about this Gabby/Brian case who stated that Gabby (who lived with Brian Laundrie and his parents for 2 years) would periodically go back to stay with her own parents when Brian became too much for her to deal with and that Brian “heard voices”. My ears immediately perked up: Brian is a schizophrenic.
That explains so much of Gabby & Brian’s toxic interactions. Highs and lows, paranoia about what Gabby was up to, corralling her off from her friends, controlling (as in his mind he was actually out of control himself) and hearing voices. All classic signs of paranoia and schizophrenia. And schizophrenia most often manifests itself between the ages of 18-23. Brian established his relationship with Gabby at the approx. age of 21; he is now 23.
There is an on-line website that started my thinking he was schizo that shows art that he has done. He is a comic book addict, and drew some of the characters, namely Hell Boy, and others. He also drew other pics that are on this same website of, get this: the devil, a screaming skeleton, knives, or daggers if you prefer dripping with blood, the picture of a man with a wolf’s head, with 3 figures standing behind him holding guns, one of the comic book characters is drawn such that it looks phallic, like a penis.
Schizophrenics, in their art work (I consulted with my friend who is an art therapist with extensive psychology and some training in psychiatry background) about my suspicions, told her about Brian hearing voices, and we studied together while talking on the phone the website showing Brian’s drawings. She totally agrees that Brian is most likely to be schizophrenic.
My friend still has a picture done by one of the schizophrenic patients she did art therapy with while working on the psychiatric ward of a large middle west city hospital affiliated with a prominent University. Many of the schizo patients on the ward where she worked were very bright individuals, some being students at the University where the hospital with the psychiatric ward was located (genius bordering on insanity?). My friend had shown me the picture many years ago (it was a large, maybe 16 x 20 or thereabouts pic) that was framed and hanging on her house wall; it was fascinating.
Schizos in their pics, often use random numerology, numbers strewn arbitrarily about in their paintings. They often put devil figures or heads in their art, and phallic symbols, and knives, or guns or other objects or portrayals of violence. All this coming out of their mentally sick state of mind, the inner turmoil, and it gets worse with age.
Paranoia is another major symptom of this disease, paranoid schizophrenia. And this is what my friend and I agreed that we believe Brian to be, a paranoid schizophrenic. We both wonder if this was already known by Brian’s parents (which could explain their over protectiveness towards their son) and has already been diagnosed as such. Because of HIPPA laws this info would not be divulged to the public, and thus to the media. They are not privy to Brian or Gabby’s mental records. Gabby herself probably has certain mental problems of her own. She self described herself when talking to the police when she and Brian had an altercation, that she was OCD (Obsessive/Compulsive disorder). So mentally toxic meets very mentally toxic (Brian) and the end result is a dead Gabby and a missing Brian. There is more I could say here but this is getting long, so I’ll save it for next time on a Gabby/Brian thread.
You promised more for the next Gabby thread, instead we got a repeat.
I have told people that I am OCE-P. They say, “OH! Obsessive Compulsive Disorder!” I say, “No, Obsessive Compulsive Enhanced Perfectionist.”. I simply do not know nor understand how other people can live without Obsessive Compulsive Perfectionism tendencies.
The dumb-founded looks on people’s faces when I tell them that makes me laugh. ;-)
“paranoid schizophrenia”
Well Brian is only two switched letters from brain, so there is that….
I’ve seen the traffic stop video. It’s like an hour long. I did not get the impression of a menacing or violent person, but he was “off.” I thought perhaps on the spectrum, maybe Asperger’s, but he did not come off as faking his personality or as evil, if my intuition is correct. Mental illness makes it make sense.