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It would help, but he's got obvious nutrition and gut microbe issues he needs to have addressed too. Depression that resists treatment to the extent of having a provider resort to ketamine to treat it is usually rooted in nutrition issues (low zinc and/or magnesium is a common one, low vitamin B6 is another; these often co-occur in gut dysbiotic patients). Indeed, in the long run nothing other than fixing the core nutritional issues will work (and drugs and/or electroshock will give him further brain damage). Certainly if he ever wants his brain to start healing he needs supplements to rebuild his antioxidant chain. N-acetyl cysteine (NAC), which is the go-to antioxidant booster, has also shown results in clinical trials for drug addiction and schizophrenia; it raises cystine levels, triggering the cystine-glutamate antiporter in the brain. This has the effect of lowering the amount of glutamate available to the neurons; as glutamate is a major excitatory neurotransmitter and glutamate signalling stimulates the dopaminergic neurons, lowering neuronal glutamate levels acts somewhat like an antipsychotic, but with fewer side effects.Rioley losing access to the Internet would do him a whole world of good. Being cut off from the people who validate his behavior and fetishes would be a great start in improving his mental state. And with all his new found free time, he could clean his apartment. Losing Internet access wouldn't fix everything wrong about him, but it would provide him a much needed kick in the ass to at least start to go down the road to normalcy.
Certain forms of nutrient therapy can also help with his underlying problem of crippling anxiety, which all of these insane narcissists have whether they will admit to it or not and is a huge factor in the development of their serious personality defects. (Taurine, for example, helps with both anxiety and gut dysbiosis.) He probably also has histamine intolerance, which should always be at least suspected when you have someone with the combo of a hair-trigger temper and one or more major sexual deviancies such as diaper fetish. His parents can afford it, the trick is convincing him that nutritional therapy would help him, as well as finding a good nutritional therapist and not some quack.