There were no threats in them.

No delusions, no paranoia, no violent ideations, none of the markers of the dangerous man his in-laws had sworn to.

What the clinical record showed, session after session, was an exhausted, overworked, deeply stressed man — a man whose wife and whose failing business were both, unbeknownst to him, being sabotaged from the inside — who had done the single healthiest and most responsible thing a person under that kind of pressure can do.

He had sought professional help.

Proactively.

To manage his stress and his burnout before they overwhelmed him.