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parker. look at mom. >> reporter: harder still when you consider natalie and brian were watching their son suffer with seizureshs. >> are you there? look at mom. look at mom. where is mom at? you see her? >> reporter: heart wrenching and without >> its okay, parker. we got you honey. we gotcha. i love you, parker. i'm with you, parker. >> i would liken it to an abduction. something came in the window and stole our child, and left behind this shell. our kid is gone! like, gone! >> die, die, parker. >> i was the first one to see it. >> reporter: but parker's brother witnessed one of the worst episodes one day while heading upstairs to the bathroom. he ran into parker brandishing a kitchen knife. >> i'm, like, dad, mom, he is going to stab himself! >> i ran up into the farm and there he stood with the knife in his hand. >> bawling uncontrollably. >> i just grabbed the knife and i'm just hugging him. >> reporter: that day with the knife, did you want to hurt yourself? >> i don't really know. >> it's like you don't recognize your own child. i think he needs to be evaluated by a psychiatrist. >> reporter: it's a psy

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. >> reporter: his parents, natalie and brian, say their son is the kind of kid every parent dreams of having. >> parkerere. >> parker is affable, relaxed. he's got a dry stens of humor. he's very positive. >> oh! >> what? >> you gotta be kidding me! i'm a fisherman. >> do you sleep up on the top bunk? >> yeah. my nickname that my mom and dad call me is lead dog. >> reporter: overnight they say he morphed into something else. a year and a half ago when he was ten, parker got strep throat. within days, strange symptoms appeared. >> he had a small throat tick. it seemed like he never quit clearing his throat. it was minor. >> reporter: parker took antibiotics and everything cleared up. but over the next three months, three rounds of strep. >> parker, what are you talking about? >> reporter: each time, mysterious behaviors appeared and got worse. >> when he became socially anxious and shut himself off, what was your reaction? >> this is just -- this is strange. >> reporter: that paralyzing anxiety led to obsessive compulsive behavior. >> don't do that, you're going to hurt yourself. >> reporter: their norm