Declining Mental Health of Her Son
Perkins' son Jeremy, at age 24, began to show changes in behavior. Jeremy told his father that he was hearing voices in his mind. At that time, the Perkins sent Jeremy to join Scientology's Sea Org in California, which they hoped would help resolve his troubling behavior. Jeremy's treatment did not succeed with the Sea Org, so he returned to his parents within a few months, resuming his job at his father's business.
A family friend said "Elli strongly believed that psychiatry was an evil", so she would not consult a psychiatrist about her son's mental illness. Scientologists believe that psychiatry "doesn't work". Court-ordered psychiatric evaluations of Jeremy Perkins showed that he was displaying symptoms of schizophrenia in 2001. Jeremy's defense attorney John Nuchereno said that his condition declined over the summer of 2002, and that his father had to terminate his employment. His deterioration exhausted the Church of Scientology's efforts to cure him. They classified Jeremy Perkins as a level III "Potential Trouble Source", and banned him from further Scientology courses.
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