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Mental Health Support

mopinko

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1. well, we try to keep a lid on words like you are using, but i get you.

Reply to jambo101 (Original post)

Thu Mar 28, 2013, 10:29 AM

Mar 2013

paranoia is the word i think you want to be using. it does sound disturbed, especially as it is a drastic change in behavior. do you think drugs are involved?
unfortunately, the hardest thing in mental health is getting someone else into treatment. even if you get them there, they have to buy into it.
what you can do is protect yourself and your family is to file for an order of protection.
and maybe educate yourself. the new mh information group is really shaping up well. great place to ask more general questions.

i'm sorry that your brother is lost to you right now. it is an incredibly painful situation to be in.

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I think my brother is/has gone nuts [View all] jambo101 Mar 2013 OP

well, we try to keep a lid on words like you are using, but i get you. mopinko Mar 2013 #1

The bro definitely is not into drugs. jambo101 Mar 2013 #2

Gone nuts, batshit crazy, they're stigmatizing words. Neoma Mar 2013 #3