Found Safe TX - Michele Roode Boyd, 41, San Antonio, 24 Nov 2016 *Arrest*

[Lilibet]

Someone upthread asked if paranoia, as described here by Seth, can start at Michele's age. The answer is yes.

Here is an account by a woman in her 40's who has managed to hold herself together since her teens, but paranoia is increasing and she is starting to think about suicide. I feel awful for her. I hope she got help. I hope Michele has gotten help.

http://www.healthcentral.com/schizophrenia/c/question/813317/101002/

This is an excerpt from a Medscape article geared toward professionals. It's on page 6 if you go to the link. This snippet mentions delirium. It can happen due to intoxication or withdrawal from various pharmacological drugs, not that Michele's paranoia is necessarily due to that, but it has to be ruled out when diagnosing.

After the age of 40 years, the likelihood of new-onset paranoid symptoms being secondary to identifiable medical causes increases, and a diagnosis of psychotic disorder due to a general medical condition, substance-induced psychosis, and delirium must first be ruled out. Delirium is characterized by disturbances in consciousness, orientation, memory, thought (e.g., delusions of persecution), perception, mood, and behaviour, of acute onset and fluctuating course.[SUP][15][/SUP] The major causes of delirium include central nervous system disease, systemic disease, and either intoxication or withdrawal from pharmacological or toxic agents. The most frequently implicated medications are anticholinergic drugs, sedative-hypnotics and narcotics.[SUP][5]

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/579817

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[cool12]

Hello, this is Michele's husband. I noticed this site and looked at the posts. I see everyone having a lot of questions and theories. I hope I can help resolve a few.

1. Her hair - She cut her hair a few days prior - pixie cut, bleached it, and used kool-aid to die the tip of her bangs. She got the idea from some random girl in a magazine which she cut out and posted in one of her 27 spiral notebooks she wrote in.

2. We were not in the process of divorce. We had a mutual separation and were literally 2 miles from each other. I picked up my daughter from school everyday and brought her back to the house. I saw her everyday. I stayed there for a few weeks but she felt better to have some physical space between us so we could "find ourselves" again. There was no hostility at all.

3. She was the sole money maker which was agreed between us for our own reasons. I worked at the same company for 10 years before this decision.

4. She is the love of my life. I dispise social media. I didn't mind using facebook as a way to reach out but I do not post much. Not because I dont care, just don't like it. I have to take care of things here at home. Finding a job, paying bills, child care, etc. This came out of nowhere and the entire thing is on my plate.

5. I have driven close to 2000 miles total looking for her. As in, 2000 miles in san antonio. I go out every opportunity I can. At this point, I do not feel like she is in the same area. So, I am investigating other areas.

6. If any of you have been with a family member or friend with a mental health issue, especially of the paranoid kind, she puts up a front for anyone she does not trust or she would feel ashamed or embarrassed about them knowing. When I say there were issues that arised up to 3 months prior, it isnt something I made up. I lived through it and she admitted she needed help. It had resolved itself (I thought) but after I moved out, I suspect it went all downhill since she had no release or anyone to talk to about it.

7. When I came back to the house on Thanksgiving, she had gone through the house re-arranging everything, taking pictures down, had all kinds of things in random places that people wouldnt put. Hard to explain but it was not normal thinking process.

8. I hesitated saying anything about her state of mind. I didn't want to embarass her but as you can see, she still isn't back. So I felt it was necessary.

9. Nothing was hacked on any account. I gained access to all of her accounts and she did that on purpose. She is paranoid. She thinks she is trying to throw people off track. Things she is doing dont make sense which makes this extremely hard. People are watching, recording, testing her. She feels like she is a puppet in some master plan. It is hard to watch and experience.

10. As people have mentioned, she wouldnt have left our daughter. The only thing I can think of is she decided at some point during the day to do this and decided not to bring her on this journey she is on. I thank God she didnt.

11. I will say I do not believe she was meeting anyone. She is about as straight as they get. We are devout Christians, very faithful and love each other. She was doing this to protect us from these "people". I could give evidence of this but I am not going to exploit her private writing anymore than it has been. I really don't know what she did that night but she has no experience living on the streets, hell even alone, so no idea what she did that night. Since she is paranoid I doubt she went up to a stranger on one of the worst sides of San Antonio in the middle of the night and asked for help.

12. When the car was found it was locked. Not sure where the unlocked car thing came from. When the tow truck driver got there, there were 2 guys who had just gotten int it but luckily had not stolen anything (that I know of). Tablet was still in there so doesnt seem like it. The spare key she was using to drive was in the backseat floorboard. She might have locked herself out honestly. But of course didnt want to call me to unlock it for obvious reasons.

13. She hadn't worked in 3 weeks ( I think, maybe more). She called in, used vacation days, and census was low so she got called off.

14. The separation thing was super spontaneous and came out of nowhere. I still dont fully understand. I did agree that we needed to work on ourselves more and that is what we were in the process of doing. Things were actually getting better between us, so what made her flip, I dont know. I think possibly not having me there to do all the things I normally took care of was quite overwhelming for her. Seemed to spiral out of control the few days before due to some of the things she did.

15. She said she was coming over to my brothers for Thanksgiving. She agreed to bring a few bags of ice and would be there in a certain timeframe. After a few calls and texts, she didnt answer. I went to the house and it looks like she left in a whirlwind. It is just bizzare. She gets super stressed during holidays, so that on top of all the other issues she was going through, probably put her over the edge.

16. Why she has not contacted anyone? Not sure. She did make a few comments in her notebooks of trying to change the world and healthcare system. Other things as well but I dont feel like I should say them here. It is possible she felt like she needed to leave everything behind to hide from these people, protect us, and try to make it on her own. She has nothing that identifies her, so that is my guess.

i will try and check back for comments but I am going out tomorrow to look for her while my daughter is in school. Hope I cleared some things up.

Thanks,

Seth

thank you seth. i hope you are finding a healthy way to cope with what must be an awful situation.


i keep returning to this thread bc i live somewhat nearby and i have lots of friends in your area and in her profession. there are several of us here that would love to help if you could provide more details. i'm sure you are incredibly busy so allowing us to brainstorm may be helpful.

is there an officer on this case?
have you turned the 27 notebooks over to someone that might find clues or insight in them? they could be useful in the right hands. same with her computer. i'm sure you've poured over it many times but a fresh set of eyes could find something. i respect that you don't want everyone to know the depth of her issues but the situation warrants it.

it worries me so much that her car was found in such an unsafe area of town. does she have any connection to the east side? locking herself out is a reasonable explanation but why was she there in the first place? are there nearby businesses that she could have walked to for help? i'm sure they've been notified and hopefully have her poster hanging for people to see. how odd that her key was in the backseat floorboard. maybe she had slept there.

does she speak spanish?

what had she been doing during her 3 weeks off? did your schedule with her stay the same?

i hope you get some answers soon. i'm keeping you and yours in my thoughts.

 

[watergirl62]

More from your link, Lilibet. Interesting... This sounds like what may have happened to a friend of mine who was about 40yo.


People who begin showing symptoms after age 40 are less likely to have disorganized thoughts and blunting of emotions. They are more likely to have hallucinations of the senses of sight, taste, and smell, and are more likely to have persecutory delusions in which they feel someone or something is out to get them. In addition to these symptoms, people with late – onset psychosis are more likely to have auditory hallucinations of a particular kind, those in which they hear a running commentary of their minute-to-minute actions. These voices tend to be abused and denigrating.*

http://www.healthcentral.com/schizophrenia/c/76/2457/dr-ballas

 

[blaf2]

I don't see it as an addiction under these circumstances. Psychosis yes, but I'm not so sure. How often does that happen? I just don't get it!

 

[JerseyGirl]

A coworker reached out to a Facebook group dedicated to finding Boyd, 42, and said she saw Boyd on Sunday night near Medical Drive and Wurzbach Road where she was reportedly wearing jeans and a dark hoodie covering her head.

The coworker said she called out to the woman and went looking for her after turning her car around, but she was gone moments later.

The coworker also said the woman who looked like her may have gone into some apartments on Medical Drive across from the CVS right before Wurzbach Road.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...ng-Thanksgiving-possibly-spotted-10897752.php

 

[Lilibet]

A coworker reached out to a Facebook group dedicated to finding Boyd, 42, and said she saw Boyd on Sunday night near Medical Drive and Wurzbach Road where she was reportedly wearing jeans and a dark hoodie covering her head.

The coworker said she called out to the woman and went looking for her after turning her car around, but she was gone moments later.

The coworker also said the woman who looked like her may have gone into some apartments on Medical Drive across from the CVS right before Wurzbach Road.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...ng-Thanksgiving-possibly-spotted-10897752.php

I hope the coworker called the police before posting on the FB group! If it's possible that Michele went into some apartments I hope her family is staking them out day and night. That's not something LE would have time to do. Could family and friends go door to door in the complex showing Michele's photo? Again, not something they can expect LE to do, but it's a job I would certainly take on...before the sighting hits the news.

But now that the possible sighting has been publicized, Michele could have moved on.

 

[cool12]

fingers crossed they find her soon! i wonder though, if she was wearing a hoodie, how could the person saying they spotted her know she had short red hair?

 

[cool12]

http://www.kens5.com/mb/news/local/new-hope-in-search-for-missing-nurse-1/394736570

i know they want the sighting to be her but it doesn't make much sense to me that she's hiding so close to home. what would she be living on and where? she left everything behind

 

[Lilibet]

Sadly, there's nothing new on the FB page except pleas from her poor Mom. I can't imagine her pain.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1001279273333658/

 

[cool12]

i check just about every day. my heart aches for her family.
if she in fact ran off and if she was really losing her grip on reality, i am doubtful she is still wandering around the streets somewhere. that makes me think she will eventually be found.
if she met with foul play before her disappearance, i'm less confident she'll be discovered. neither is a happy ending
then there is the "she ran off to start a new life" option but i don't think she'd still be gone if that was the case.

 

[rascal32]

Quick thoughts: I work with mental health clients everyday and have family members that have mental health issues. My mother-in-law has schizophrenia and it is something that we deal with on a daily basis. She often has paranoid thoughts and delusions that other people and even her own family members are out to get her or trying to kill her. It is not so far-fetched that she might one day leave and try to hide. When somebody's brain is telling them that they are in danger and the others are out to get them it is very real to them. There are many people with mental health issues living on the streets and homeless because they have left homes and families. I hope The police are not only checking the homeless shelters, but also checking battered women shelters and all the surrounding areas and towns.


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[momrids6]

I hope LE & the family have checked out former places of residence- especially since the Medical Drive sighting.

 

[inmyhumbleopinion]

<modsnip>

Thank you for posting this. The article is very good, and it's full of information:

"Laurence Reisman: Five months later, nurse still missing | Digital extras"
11:18 a.m. ET May 5, 2017
"Seth Boyd did something last Thanksgiving any of us can relate to: He texted his wife to finalize a time when she and their daughter could meet at his brother&#8217;s for a holiday meal. He didn&#8217;t get a text back. No one answered the phone.

So he went home to find his wife of almost eight years, Vero Beach native Michele Roode Boyd, 41, and their daughter, 5, gone.
...
She&#8217;s been missing in a living nightmare for a husband forced to leave their San Antonio home last week because of foreclosure. He finds solace in the fact their daughter is safe and back home.
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The divorcees got along so well online she moved to San Antonio in late 2008 and the couple married.
...
'She was a very ambitious, loyal worker,' Marcia Murphy, a co-worker at Indian River Estates, said of Michele Boyd. 'Her child was the most important thing to her. That&#8217;s why nothing makes sense.'

<modsnip>


Seth Boyd has been delivering pizzas to make ends meet, raising his daughter and trying to find his wife.
..." (All BBM)
More at link: http://www.tcpalm.com/story/opinion...nurse-still-missing-digital-extras/101207772/

 

[cool12]

i don't even know where to begin with that article. much of it is written as fact, like her being seen in the hoodie, and some of the information i've never read before.
had it been reported that she practically abandoned her daughter?

 

[Gardener1850]

Wow, that is a lot of new info I don't recall seeing before. I would like to know the timeline of when her phone showed up in Florida and when the account in CA was opened.

 

[mpnola]

I will say that I think it is good that the brother was also aware of her odd behavior. People are quick to look at a husband, especially when separated. Her brother helps relieve that extra stress from husband, hopefully. I hope baby girl is doing well. Luckily dad was used to caring for her. I hope Michele finds help.

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[rascal32]

Yes from everything reported it really sounds like she left on her own. If that's the case and she's paranoid having delusions, it's a matter of time before she's entered into the system somewhere for either law enforcement or mental health intervention.


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[cool12]

that article included info that, had it been mentioned before, would have made me see the case differently. i still wonder about the details though, like did she really abandon her daughter? if that's the case, and she went missing tgiving day WITH her daughter, i'm surprised there wasn't more concern that very day.
if the article wasn't so poorly written i'd doubt its credibility less. as it is, i'm more puzzled than ever.

 

[GigTu]

Why can't they, or why didn't they get a subpoena to find out where the "bizarre" FB friend request came from?

 

[GigTu]

Her daughter said she threw her phone in the San Antonio dumpster, yet it pinged in Florida? She must have had more than one phone.

Then, she's supposedly spotted back in San Antonio, then they think she's in California?

Is this college educated woman living homeless and hitchhiking back and forth across the country? Is she taking rides with truckers? Risky.