Having been a counselor who dealt with family crises, I've been "there" a bunch. A couple of short events.

Guy had his house surrounded by police. "Call off your dogs", he tells me.

I can't, I reply. They're your dogs. They have to see you're all right before they can leave.

Made sense to him, he put down his sidearm and opened the back door. They jumped him.

That was after a standoff from 7:15 AM to 5:30 PM.

The most frustrating matter was the woman who insisted she was going to win the lottery, her guru told her, and she needed to demonstrate complete faith in him for it to happen. She had liquidated her families assets and was going to send them overseas someplace to the guru. In exchange, she got the lottery. And with every fiber of her being she believed.

Some people are nuts.