I have to object to this and other posts that attribute Garza's Brilliant Cock brain to a mere mental illness.  A person with bipolar disorder, ADHD, or even Narcissistic Personality Disorder could not use people, lie, scam and evade prison as long as Garza has.  Even with Narcissistic Personality Disorder, chaos would have taken over his life long before now. 

I used to think that maybe his behavior could be accounted for by some mental illness... constantly screwing up, overshooting his abilities, failure to plan, failure to execute could all be attributed to some mental illness like bipolar or severe ADHD.  If you look at my earlier posts, I used to believe it was equally likely that GAW could be explained by massive incompetence and I kind of felt sorry for Garza, and even at one point early on wanted to help him.

His emails though show his real self though ... tracking his wife, outbursts aimed at his closest associates for no discernible reason, threatening anyone who shows the slightest disloyalty, scamming even the scammers, using faked emotional relationships to help hide his scam (Stuart Fraser; the accountant and her possible love child, discarded when she became a threat; the coin developer referred to as his"pumpkin" etc.) ... all point to something a lot worse than a mere mental illness.

I am really glad that he cut me off early on, before I could offer to help out or I might have gotten sucked in too. Normal people who want to help others are at greatest risk to be taken in by this kind of person.

So please, don't disparage those with mental illnesses by ascribing Garza's behavior to something like that.  He is beyond mental illness and it does a disservice to people with real, treatable, mental illnesses.