Does anyone have experience with this? My brother is seeing a psychiatrist, a good one. He has gone through some bad ones... this one is a lot better, and specializes in dealing with disorders such as the one he has been diagnosed with. He has some sort of disorder that is shared with people who have anorexia... but he's not anorexic, far from it, not obese, pretty normal (eats a little much but not overweight). Though, lately he has been getting heavier (past year), eating more than he should, he's still in a good range.

He doesn't have a job, he's almost 22, he's home almost every day of the week, runs the tv while doing everything, while playing video games, while taking a shower, whatever... he likes having background noise going. He's normal most of the time, but his anxieties keep him from some things. He misses birthday dinners because he doesn't want to be out in public, etc. There are other times he'll come out no problem...

Occasionally he'll go off, maybe once every couple months. Tonight he came home (probably a bit drunk), he raged at me for no reason out of the blue... I told him I had a test tomorrow, he yelled at me and went on and on calling me a fucking bitch, all that stuff, made no sense. Seemed like he was taking out aggression on me, but I couldn't tell where it came from.

He plays guitar... but other than that, he doesn't really keep up much in the way of productive hobbies. He smokes too much weed, and relies on the oils and all that for a harder buzz. He doesn't do any harder drugs though, and rarely drinks.

I only get so much information that comes down from the psychiatrist, my parents are paying for all this, but I really don't hear much other than it's a process. He went downhill around grade 10, started smoking weed lots, grades dropped, he sunk into the way he is and has been like this since then. Just don't want to see anything develop into anything terrible...

Well... for one thing, people who are unstable emotionally (be it mood disorders or anxiety etc.) should probably lay off of puffing haze and alcohol as that can make it a lot easier to set people off.

This post was edited by Lolzor on Dec 6 2014 08:49am

sounds sort of bipolar, manic/anxious and depressive cycling is characteristic. regardless, make sure he knows that you are always able to talk about whatever he wants to, and try to get him to experience new things. its my personal opinion that most people who experience depression really just lack a passion in their life. they have nothing they can truly focus their energy on for purely intrinsic benefit. try to get him involved in some really interesting and exciting alternative physical activities. by alternative i mean stuff that wouldnt typically be the first thing you think of when you say sports. find a nice mountain nearby and go explore on some snowboards, try climbing at a rock gym, just do shit. physical activity is a great treatment for depression if you can find something he likes, and even non-physical hobbies like getting him to really focus on his guitar playing for a few hours per day can settle the mind

Why don't you just say what disorder he gas u slopy tainbrb has anyone had experience with this? This being well shit I don't really know what this it
Tfo civilian

speaking of mentaly unstable ppl...

what has he been diagnosed with? or do we have to guess, we dont have much info

introduce them to natural selection

AKA the business end of your nail embedded baseball bat, KID.

This post was edited by Bubbler on Dec 6 2014 02:34pm

Your best option for support is to find them professional help.

If you're not qualified to deal with mental illnesses don't attempt to.

sadly, but that sounds like me awhile back
He probably had some thing going on a while ago. Maybe girl problems?

Something fucked him over and he has to resort to weed to calm down. I bet he can think about it and rage over it.

It took me 4 years to calm down man. A girlfriend helped me out. Being alone is not good. Make sure he's always around people..like your friends.

That will force him to act more normal. He will rage on family because he knows family will never abandon him.

I wouldn't call it a mental health issues so don't piss him off by saying those things to his face.

However, i don't know enough information so i can't make that call.

Get professional help but get it from someone good. He is already pissed inside abut having to get help.

You really need to get him to stop smoking for a few weeks, then let him smoke again.

I bet he has smoked every day for a long time right?

Edit: when i went through this. I was basically waiting for someone to piss me off. I would have fucking stomped on someone and killed myself.

It's dangerous. He has some kind of anger inside. My sister is a phychologist and she works with some of the best at her field. Usually the answer is very simple but we fail to see it. It's not always something big....

Sadly, my sister changed to that field because i was breaking my family apart. My stress, depression, and smoking weed did something to me.

I still look back and can not believe i was that person. It really is a hole that you fall into. It's easy to jump out if it though. You just need to figure out what that is. All i needed to do was make peace with my family and get over this one girl. lol

I am a completely different person now. My bestfriend died recently and it put me back for a couple weeks. Being busy in school some how helped me. Thank god.

This post was edited by expressaa on Dec 6 2014 03:31pm

Power to you man, I have a older brother that has been in and out of jail/rehab since he was 15.. He's 33 now. Pretty much everyone in my family has gotten so numb to everything that he's on his own.. So I'd say we did a pretty crappy job of handling the situation.

As far as I know he has no mental health issues other than addictions, and being a pathological liar.. Which I don't really know if you would call mental health issues lol.