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My brother was diagnosed with schizophrenia about a year ago. He has been hospitalized multiple times and suffers from anosognosia, so he refuses to undergo treatment or take his medication because he doesn't think he is mentally ill. Until a couple of months ago, he was living with my parents. My mother was supposed to have him involuntarily committed, but has been dragging her feet about it. My father has refused to help or support my mother with any strategies that could help my brother get treatment. He has not sought to learn how to communicate with my brother or do any education that takes real work to navigate this new terrain regarding my brother's mental illness. He doesn't want to deal with my brother anymore and wants to rid himself of him because he is "fµcked up" now.
My brother is not violent, but becomes confrontational with my father when my dad shouts at him or calls him names when he doesn't do things around the house. They got into another verbal argument and my father locked my brother out of the house, in the middle of a Mid-west winter night (it was literally about 10 degrees outside with 3 feet of snow on the ground), where he only had a blanket on and no coat. He refused to let him back in, and my mother and I had to arrange for him to stay at my sister's for a while. I was so upset with him, because he literally locked my brother out of the house and did not care what happened to him. I live in another state and had to pay to have an Uber take my brother to my sister's house. I can't get over the fact that my father was so cruel to my brother. I figure if he did that to my brother, then he would have did it to me if I was suffering from the same mental illness. My father's overall treatment of my brother has strained our relationship to the point where I don't want to talk to him anymore. I figure if he can abrogate his familial duties as a father when he feels like then I can do it to his ass too as a daughter. Am I wrong for feeling his way?
His ass is old and will want some one to take care of him when he can't do that anymore. Will he be expecting for us to put him out of the house when he becomes vulnerable and can no longer take care of himself? When he can't walk or go to the bathroom? He has opened up a can of worms where he will end up reaping what he has sown. Because I won't be looking to do sh!t for his ass. If he can just shake of the shackles of obligation of family when they get a mental illness, I figure I can do it when his ass becomes infirmed.
My brother is not violent, but becomes confrontational with my father when my dad shouts at him or calls him names when he doesn't do things around the house. They got into another verbal argument and my father locked my brother out of the house, in the middle of a Mid-west winter night (it was literally about 10 degrees outside with 3 feet of snow on the ground), where he only had a blanket on and no coat. He refused to let him back in, and my mother and I had to arrange for him to stay at my sister's for a while. I was so upset with him, because he literally locked my brother out of the house and did not care what happened to him. I live in another state and had to pay to have an Uber take my brother to my sister's house. I can't get over the fact that my father was so cruel to my brother. I figure if he did that to my brother, then he would have did it to me if I was suffering from the same mental illness. My father's overall treatment of my brother has strained our relationship to the point where I don't want to talk to him anymore. I figure if he can abrogate his familial duties as a father when he feels like then I can do it to his ass too as a daughter. Am I wrong for feeling his way?
His ass is old and will want some one to take care of him when he can't do that anymore. Will he be expecting for us to put him out of the house when he becomes vulnerable and can no longer take care of himself? When he can't walk or go to the bathroom? He has opened up a can of worms where he will end up reaping what he has sown. Because I won't be looking to do sh!t for his ass. If he can just shake of the shackles of obligation of family when they get a mental illness, I figure I can do it when his ass becomes infirmed.