Is Ther Any Help With My Brother's Schizophrenia?????? Posted: 08-03-05 15:34pm
My brother was diagnosed with
schizophrenia in his early 20s, he is now
38. When he was younger he would make up
lies, he was paranoid that everyone was
out to get him, he would hide in the
bushes with guns because he believed that
people were coming to kill him. One night
he went to work, claimed he had weapons,
and said that he was going to blow up his
workplace, the sheriff's office and then
he would kill himself, my dad (a police
officer) and another officer found my
brother hiding in the bushes, they took
him to the hospital where they found drugs
in his system and diagnosed him with
schizophrenia. He stayed in the hospital
for about a month and then went to live in
a sort of half way house. He didn't stay
there long because the half way house had
rules and he will not obey rules. He has
gone to college and kept steady jobs.
Here is a list of his actions.
*he replaced his old life for a new one.
He made up lies on his resume, even bought
false documents to support his lies. He
does not know that his family knows
this.
*the family is not allowed to speak to
anyone that he does for fear of exposing
his lies.
*he turns everything around and
exaggerates. For instance, the other day
my mother mentioned to him that she was
thinking of buying a flat screen computer
monitor for herself. He comes and tells
me that our mother want him to buy her one
because he stole her's .
*he is terrible with money. He wastes his
money on computers, games, movies,
stickers, radios, and stresses out and
does not understand why there is no money
for rent.
*he hates women. He believes that women
are all stupid and good for nothing. He
hates people outside the usa. He believes
that all people other than himself are
stupid.
*we were raised christian, he now believes
that god is not real and that the bible
should be burned.
*he makes up stories to get people to feel
sorry for him. He believes that he is
always right, and if you prove him wrong,
he gets mad, throws things around the
house and storms away.
*if we do not answer our cell phones when
he calls us at work, he believes that we
hate him and don't want to talk to him.
*we can not watch movies with certain
actors/actresses in them because if he
hates that actor/actress then he complains
throughout the whole movie and says we are
stupid for liking that actor/actress.
The list goes on. It is so hard just to
be around him. We have to watch what we
say and do for fear of making him mad and
setting him off.
Here is my question. Is there anything
that I can do? He had denied that he has
schizophrenia. He believes the doctors
only put that label on him because they
hate him. He has never and will never
take medication. If we bring up the
subject of schizophrenia, then we hate him
and are trying to say that he is crazy so
we can get rid of him. This is so
stressful on the family. My mother feels
bad because she doesn't enjoy being around
her son anymore. Is there anything at all
that we can do?
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JoshGSchizophreniaNIN
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 13 Location: Henderson, NV
Posted: 08-04-05 06:42am
Well.
I just wonder. Did they diagnose him
while he still had drugs in his system?
Does he act like that because of drugs he
takes/took or because of a mental
illness?
If it's the drugs, then I think certain
drugs can sort of mimic symptoms of some
mental illnesses. And thus, he just has
a drug problem and should get that checked
out. And maybe he right to reject the
schizophrenia label.
Out of curiousity, what other ways does he
exhibit schizophrenia? Besides the
paranoia?