Hello all,
    I've got a big male black short hair about 3 years old.  One younger
and one older cat also.  The big male is literally afraid of his own
shadow.  He will walk into a room he's been in a 100 times, but act like
he's never been there before.  He's not exactly afraid, but will enter
the room slowly, inspecting each and every single thing for about 10
minutes.  He will even freak when he sees us walking down the hall
sometimes.  (He'll stop, get big-eyed and scared until we say something
so he knows it's ok).  He HAS very good eyesite (he follows and catches
toys we throw at him).

An important note:  He is not afraid to check everything out.  He's
super suspicious, but will slink over to each thing to investigate.  He
just seems a nervous wreck.  A contributing factor is the younger cat
will jump him around every corner.

One time some ants got into his food and he dang near hit the ceiling he
jumped back so fast.

We feel so sorry for him, but don't know what the real problem is.  He
seems a bit mental.

Any ideas?

TIA
-bradley