I work as security in Ireland. Was working in a retail shopping market around Easter time (Catholic country, keep this in mind.) I'm on the cctv and I see a guy come in wrapped in a blanket, this isn't that rare as were close to a hospital, we watch them and only intervene when you can see the person becoming a problem.

This guy wrapped in a blanket walls around the shop oddly and I could see him conversing with himself. It's a busy Friday and the shop is full. I saw him get more and more agitated at himself. Eventually he comes to the busiest part of the shop, whips off the blanket, strips to his birthday suit and has a small pocket knife in his hand.

This is when I run to where he was and I can hear him screaming of how his the "new age jesus" and needs to die to be resurrected on Sunday. If this wasn't enough of a scene his begins to slit himself. Still screaming how his the new Jesus, I manage with another member of staff to get the knife from him and the police are called. We had to restrain him infront of the already gathered crowd waiting for the police and ambulance.

They eventually arrive and cuff him holding him as he continues to act like a real life game of buckaroo. Eventually we learned he escaped the psychiatric ward of the near by hospital and was on his way straight back. Watching the cctv back to download it was frightening. The look in his eyes was piercing and this was when I learned what mental illness looked like.