My brother is visiting for a couple of weeks and I can't stand it.
He's been HIV+ probably since around 1991 (symptoms appeared in
1994), and the extra 10 years the new drugs gave him were wasted on
crystal meth and the gay bar and all its tweeked-out HIV+ twinkies.
So now he's literally a raving lunatic, already involuntarily
committed until the hospital had to evict him for lack of funds,
and my family is stuck with him. He can't work, he smokes a
carton of tobacco cigarettes a day (he actually lights a new
cigarette within 5 minutes of finishing the last!), rambles on
incoherently about the weirdest sh.t, and harasses his so-called
friends on the phone (using my long distance). He is suffering
serious delusions, one being that he is blackmailing one of
"good friends" because he had confessed to killing his boyfriend.
This is especially irritating, because although I didn't really
like the guy, he was nice enough and had stuck by my brother
through the worst of his insanity and now my brother turns on him
and accuses him of murder (there's no evidence of a death, I
think the boyfriend simply left my brother's friend).
Oh, and while I don't subscribe to traditional religious morality,
I am fairly ethical and my brother irritates me because he is
ethically BANKRUPT. He has absolutely no conception of what is
fair and honest and what is not. One example is last year after
I finished babysitting him. He had ripped off a "good friend" to
get money (he is broke and I was controlling his money supply),
the friend forgave him and was driving my brother somewhere and
his raving caused the guy to run a red light and hit another car.
My brother insisted on being taken to the hospital by ambulance,
the hospital determined he was uninjured and released him, my
brother went to the gay bar and bought some crystal meth from the
fag hag who sits there all night long selling it, and proceeded
to attack his neighbor's car with a vacuum cleaner. Naturally,
this was all the fault of the hospital and he hired a lawyer to
sue them and I think their angle was going to be that the
trauma of the accident had induced PTSD in my brother which the
hospital failed to diagnose; I put a stop to that with a letter to
the hospital's legal department, but he just got a $2700 settlement
from the friend's insurance company (I'm going to complain to the
state insurance commission). The $2700 quickly went up his nose
and now he is insaner than ever. All the drivers in Nevada should
be so happy that they now have to pay higher premiums to settle
nuisance lawsuits filed by mentally-ill crackheads.
an - 19 Jun 2005 07:34 GMT
> My brother is visiting for a couple of weeks and I can't stand it.
> He's been HIV+ probably since around 1991 (symptoms appeared in
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> be so happy that they now have to pay higher premiums to settle
> nuisance lawsuits filed by mentally-ill crackheads.
I'd say your brother has the problem, having to stay with a "perfect" person
like yourself.
flyer - 19 Jun 2005 09:20 GMT
I guess sympathy/empathy and intervention techniques aren't practiced
in your family very much. Did you expect us to agree with you that your
brother's the one causing YOU all the problems?
Susan
Ain't Your Mama - 19 Jun 2005 17:40 GMT
> My brother is visiting for a couple of weeks and I can't stand it.
> He's been HIV+ probably since around 1991 (symptoms appeared in
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> be so happy that they now have to pay higher premiums to settle
> nuisance lawsuits filed by mentally-ill crackheads.
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Kick the bum out.
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Ain't Your Mama
Maggie - 20 Jun 2005 00:35 GMT
If you're the guy who posted here sometime ago about the same Las Vegas
brother, I remember you.
I hate to tell you this, as a BP myself.......you're going to have to
write your brother off inorder to save yourself.
My sympathies.
Maggie
Brian Mailman - 20 Jun 2005 18:42 GMT
> If you're the guy who posted here sometime ago about the same Las Vegas
> brother, I remember you.
It is.
> I hate to tell you this, as a BP myself.......you're going to have to
> write your brother off inorder to save yourself.
Yeah, but he won't do that, and that's the real pain of it. Even after
his brother dies, he'll be continuing to carry on.
There's some Zen stories about this.
B/
xdenizen - 21 Jun 2005 04:02 GMT
So have you tried to get any psychiatric help for your brother? I mean
rather than coming in here and bitching about him. Bi-polar disorder
can be treated. Bigotry, of course, cannot.
Sweetly,
Matty
la ignorancia es la fuerza - 21 Jun 2005 17:41 GMT
"xdenizen" <xdenizen@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message...
> So have you tried to get any psychiatric help for your brother? I mean
> rather than coming in here and bitching about him. Bi-polar disorder
> can be treated. Bigotry, of course, cannot.
Uh, yeah I did take him to the psychiatrist who prescribed Seroquel
which he then refused to take. He now on both Risperdal 2mg and
Seroquel 800mg and we still see no improvement. I know all about
bipolar disorder, and while I think he probably had an underlying
tendency towards it, it definitely was the crystal meth that sent
him over the edge. Also, the HIV virus can infect brain cells
(AIDS-related Dementia?) and drive a person insane. But from what
I see right now, my brother is totally gone and will never recover.
Oh, and we already had him committed to the mental hospital last
year, but for SEVERE lack of funding they kicked him out after two
weeks (~130 beds for a metro area getting close to 1.5 million!).
And the psychiatrist told both him and me that if he continued to
do the crystal meth that the brain damage may be irreversible.
Traveler - 21 Jun 2005 18:01 GMT
if you haven't started the medicar/medicaid/disability route you should
probably get busy.
it takes forever
> "xdenizen" <xdenizen@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message...
>> So have you tried to get any psychiatric help for your brother? I mean
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> And the psychiatrist told both him and me that if he continued to
> do the crystal meth that the brain damage may be irreversible.