Posted on 02/20/2022 6:52:47 AM PST by LibWhacker
He’s controlled by demons and you need strong spiritual leadership to help cast them out.
Not a crazy or sarcastic answer, but I would add serious medical intervention.
Or suicide by police will be in his future, along with havoc wreaked along the way.
Have a younger relative who was diagnosed as schizophrenic (hereditary, not my side). He is in a group home currently. He was a danger to his parents and is not allowed to be alone with his mom. His father passed last year.
This is in Ohio, states may differ. You might start with social services.
That chokes me up. I think you’re right. Thanks.
No, he's what asylums were made for.
He’s 38... Little late to be getting help. He’s past that stage and has made his own decisions good or bad
Tough love... Be done with him till he gets his shxt together.
That works?!
Thanks for the advice!
Seriously: Except for the one line ("He mutters and talks and shouts to himself and erupts in scary outbursts for no apparent reason, in private and in public."), there's nothing in your posting to indicate that he is actually, you know, a bona fide psychotic.
You said it yourself: He's obnoxious.
But if your reference to "anti-psychotic medication" which has been prescribed is to be believed, then - All right!
My only (admittedly paltry) advice to you is: Seek legal counsel! Inquire into the possibility of getting him committed. Perhaps you could at least get him to be determined, by a Court of Law, to be legally incompetent. That might lessen the havoc he might otherwise unleash.
Regards,
Move away and give no forwarding address to anyone. There is no magic formula where you can step in and show the world how awesome you are at fixing people
What I have observed...
The nephew’s father needs to go before a judge to ask to become power of attorney over his son because he is unable care for himself. Then he can get the help his son needs.
Pray the young man is delivered from addiction and darkness.
Take him fishing.
“But I do know he’s been doing drugs since his early teens.”
And the “mental illnesses” are the symptom.
Without direct intervention from Jesus Christ it will be like the scripture of the woman sweeping the spirit out of her house and it then returns 7 fold. This man needs the healing balm of Jesus Christ
My experience is there is no helping some people, except by God’s grace.
I think you’re right, thanks... It’s like seeing a wreck coming and you just want to close your eyes and not watch.
“But she says there is no institutionalizing people like that anymore, “thanks to your hero Reagan.””
First, Reagan did not close any mental health institutions, but many liberal governors and legislatures in the 1980’s did. They money was unlawfully funneled to ‘education’ even though it was provided by the federal government for long term care.
Second, there are long term care facilities that take in the mentally ill, but once the mentally ill become mentally stable with the right medications they leave the facility by signing themselves out. They have that right.
They quickly end up homeless because they stop taking their medications and become unstable once again. Rinse, repeat this cycle of mental illness -> vagrancy -> arrest -> institution -> stability -> sign out -> mental illness.
The wife runs mental hospitals. She sees this every day.
What can you do: Nothing. There are no ‘prisons’ to hold the mentally ill unless they commit serious crimes and are actually imprisoned. No one can force meds on these people with any reliability. They become stable and then gain rights, which then leads to them not taking their meds.
Thank you.
“He’s controlled by demons and you need strong spiritual leadership to help cast them out”
It is idiocy to think there are no medical issues, that everything is related to the Bible. Just sit there and starve while telling the world God will feed your stomach if he wants you to live.
He’s arrogant and should be kicked to the curb. Some time sleeping on a park bench may motivate him to work better with others.
I had a relative with similar issues at a similar age. He received very expensive mental health counseling at a top institution. He was diagnosed as being depreseed. The pills he was preescribed helped him while he took them. But he came to resent that he had to take a checmical to be normal (he knows best, like your nephew) and so quit taking them and relapsed.
Another costly intervention and free room and board at a relatives place for a year was necessary. He’s been steadily employed for a couple of years at a grocery store, but of course, everyone else is an idiot. If only he were in charge, the store would be better.
Depression is serious business, but so is arrogance and the lack of gratitude for the time and help of relatives.
All of that is a long way of saying that I don’t have an answer for your nephew. If any in your family feel like it’s their duty to try and help, then let them help. I wouldn’t feel guilty for giving up on such a person, however. The human heart has limits. Your life and happiness is important too.
Lol. Humor never hurts, thanks.
She needs to read more on that. Reagan was getting hit from many sides on that, it was liberal groups and their enabling Dems that forced the closings. I hear that all the time and it's really bull excrement. They couldn't have their voting based taken out of the game.
No, he isn't. The feds can still go after you for it in every state that has legalized if they so chose.
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