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Actually, I assume he suffered from manic depression. He had his "highs," like when he met Millie and fell in love with her IMMEDIATELY, and his lows, like when he didn't go out of the house for days. He also suffered from paranoia and presumably PTSD from issues with his family as well as from the war. I'm guessing that his statement about not seeing combat was a lie because it was part of his new persona with Millie. I don't know how much he saw, but probably enough to make him (more) disturbed. So I didn't see the trauma causing his mental illness but just exacerbating it. He probably did lie and steal in the past, whether it related to being bipolar or not, and then the continual stress eventually triggered all out delusions and paranoia.
posted 7 years ago in Autumn Leaves (1956)