[brandstifter]

To be honest, I’ve been finding it disturbing that they’ve kept Darnell in. I genuinely believe him to be at worst mentally ill and at best in need of counselling or therapy. To keep him in the very environment which has exacerbated his condition to this extent in the first place is just plain wrong. Furthermore, the inevitable boos when he comes out could tip him over the edge.

I suspect either mild bipolar disease or the beginnings of paranoid schizophrenia (or both)* and leaving him in that environment for our amusement is not the way to deal with it. It's like asking a guy with a broken leg to keep on running.

Technically he is free to leave of his own accord. However, that's presuming he's mentally fit and rational enough to make that decision. An objective psychiatric practitioner should assess him and decide whether he should be removed.

[ *He’s also displaying classic signs of semantic pragmatic disorder, though this would almost certainly have been a pre-existing condition and is unlikely to develop at this stage in his life. ]