can his dad talk to his doctor and tell the doctor what’s really going on?
he may be also self medicating besides what he is prescribed.
I think his dad went with him when he initially saw the doctor. But my brother-in-law hasn’t said much about that. I think there is some embarrassment there.
Someone has to be watching to the best of his ability and making him take his meds, and it can only be my brother-in-law.
“ he may be also self medicating besides what he is prescribed.”
Marijuana, and all the THC concentrates now available from it, are particularly bad for borderline psychotics.
Most anti-psychotic prescription drugs work by limiting dopamine in the brain. Marijuana and THC are potent at increasing dopamine.
In addition to that effect, marijuana/THC is well documented to reduce motivation and ambition.
If you and his father could get him working to stay clean of recreational drugs, that would give his body a better chance to heal. It would probably require a formal program (like AA), and a lot of time and effort.
But the mild psychotic symptoms and the lack of holding a job or forming a career are both characteristic of heavy marijuana/THC use.