I (22m) have a friend (30m) who is severely schizophrenic. Over the years it’s just gotten worse and worse to the point where now I can’t even be around him for longer than 20 minutes. He’s isolated himself from his friends and family, he pretty much lives in fantasy land 24/7, and he’s **dangerously** paranoid. He thinks everybody is part of some global plot to assassinate him. So far he’s accused his parents of stealing from him, he’s accused our mutual friend of trying to poison his food, he physically fought his brother because he was *convinced* that he ejaculated into his drink (I can’t make this shit up), and he physically fought me because he was *convinced* that I was a white supremacist (I’m half black btw so I don’t fucking know where that came from). I let the guy live with me rent free for over a year just trying to help him and he tried to sucker punch me while my back was turned. I’m still angry about it but I know it’s not his fault he’s so damn mentally ill. 

It was one thing when it was just words and occasionally fists, but recently he’s bought two guns, a bulletproof vest, and a shit ton of ammunition. Last time I talked to him he casually told me about how he almost shot everybody in Domino’s Pizza while he was waiting for his food because he was *convinced* they were aliens or lizard people trying to abduct him or some shit (at this point idek). I’m worried that if he doesn’t get professional help soon he will eventually lash out and seriously hurt somebody or get himself hurt. He needs to be hospitalized and on medication but his parents won’t fucking do shit for him and it sucks because I care about the guy. We’ve been friends for years, but I’m about to have a baby in 8 months and I feel like for my own safety I just can’t be around him anymore. I don’t even know what advice I’m looking for. I just felt like getting this off my chest. Mental illness fucking sucks.