[...And now this is sounding familiar as well, but he won't make a comment on it. He swore to privacy, after all. So he'll treat it as if he's hearing it for the first time, and in a way he is as he's hearing it from a different perspective.]

So it was at least enough to pull him out of whatever mindset he was in and start thinking more rationally. That already is a large step in bringing someone back to their senses.

And then after that?