I also noticed that similarity between Lucas and Bundy. Ted Bundy was extremely mentally ill, yet able to con people into believing he was normal/sane/intelligent so well that he was allowed to be his own lawyer and he eventually sabotaged his own defense all the way to the electric chair. Lucas is good at pretending to be normal when it really matters, but instead of prison I suppose he’s going to con his way into death by unchecked diabetes and exposure to the elements.
Bundy fangirls sometimes talk about the "mask of sanity" that Bundy was able to wear, up until the end of his run in Florida. By the time of his final criminal trial, the mask was more or less back in place. But once you get a peek under the mask, it is no longer convincing.
In Lucas's case, he's been seeing mental health professionals for around 3 decades. He has a lot of experience dealing with them. He knows the language of therapy. He's been hospitalized countless times. He knows the kinds of things he needs to say if he doesn't want to be in the hospital anymore. The question that interests me is, how badly does the hospital want to keep him?
In 2017, Lucas did two stints at Eastern State Hospital, each in excess of 180 days. It was really more of one long, 9 month stay, with a two day vacation in the middle during which he offered the ladies of Spokane $1,000 to come eat steak with him. Assuming Lucas's stay at the hospital was not voluntary by this point (I believe this is a safe assumption), the hospital went to great lengths to keep Lucas in place. Under WA law, at 14, 190, and 180 days, the doctors would have to petition to keep Lucas in treatment, and get a judge's approval at a contested hearing. Based on the length of his stay, in 2017 a judge looked at Lucas as many as 6 times and said "This guy stays in the hospital." It took a lot of people a lot of time and energy to keep Lucas locked up in 2017.
Most of Lucas's trips to the hospital don't last nearly as long. He generally goes in for a week or two, and emerges without any apparent supervision or treatment plan.
I hope that Lucas spends enough time in the hospital to feel the side effects of whatever pills they're feeding him. That way, when he returns to YouTube, he'll be Medicated Lucas. Medicated Lucas is awesome, but never lasts long.
Lucas is on an adventure that we cannot share. Alas. I hope Lucas enjoys having a roof while he can, and uses this time away productively. Will he level up his creepy? He could be composing new arguments for getting teen puss puss, or working on a sequel to his masterpiece, Wound. Maybe there are some troubled 18-year-old girls in the hospital he's fixating on.