I didn't get the July message until you sent it to me today. So it wasn't a hoax after all? He really was crazy for awhile? He really wasn't faking it? Sorry, my bad. He said he admitted himself to a psychiatric hospital but didn't go. What was that about? He told Bob it was a surprise to him that I thought he was suicidal. I thought his denial meant that it was all a big act. If it was an act, he fooled you. If it wasn't an act, he didn't fool you.
It puts me in quite a quandary because I got a lot of flack from Bob for telling Robin about Ravi's meltdown last year. When Bob told me Ravi was a performance artist, I took that to mean Ravi's meltdown last year was all a hoax. Now you tell me it wasn't an act. Fuck it. I'm sorry for stepping into Ravi's shit. I'm sorry for all the bullshit on all sides of the story. Fuck it. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "raunchydog" <raunchydog@> wrote: > <snip> > > I found the thread for May 2010, by searching Rick's posts. > > I read a few of them just enough to know you even fooled Judy, > > which is really quite an accomplishment. The thread starts > > here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/247869 > > Excuse me, in what sense did Ravi "fool" me, raunchy? > > He's acknowledged that he was *psychotic* during those > few days: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/message/282658 > > We were right to be concerned. He wasn't "crying wolf," he > was genuinely freaking out. But he did not, to the best of > my recollection, ever actually threaten suicide. > > The worst of those posts are now gone from the archive, > by the way (both Yahoo's and the Mail Archive). Either Ravi > or one of the moderators deleted them at some point. > > One of the reasons I'm pretty confident he didn't threaten > suicide was that I emailed Rick privately during that time > to express my concerns, and I called Rick's attention to > Ravi's having mentioned several times the possibility of > dying. *I* said I thought that might indicate he was > thinking of suicide, but it wasn't an explicit threat. He > was in such psychic turmoil it may well have seemed to him > that he was dying. > > He wasn't trying to "fool" anybody that he was in a bad > way. He *was* in a bad way. Thank God he came through it. >
