Hi, I made a post here a few weeks ago about my little brother (22m) going through psychosis for the last four months, and wasn’t sure how to help or what to do. Well, my mom older brother and I finally got him involuntarily committed on Wednesday. It was rough, it all happened really fast, a lot faster than I was told it would be, which I guess in some way is probably good. Anyways, he’s understandably angry at us (mostly my mom even though I’ve tried to tell him it wasn’t just her, we are all worried) yesterday, was visiting day so both my mom and I went to see him. He started off extremely angry, and crying occasionally and not understanding why we chose to do this now, and that he was fine now and sorted out everything in his head, and that if we had done this a few weeks ago he would’ve understood because he was deep in psychosis then but not anymore. Really just breaking my heart, and I felt awful. Questioning if we did the right thing, or if we didn’t. Feeling extremely guilty and sad for him. As the visitation goes on, he starts to lose himself, or maybe lose his ability to manipulate us into thinking he’s okay enough to go home. (He’s become an EXPERT liar, and manipulative and thinks it’s funny to hurt people and see how much he can get them to believe of his lies as I will touch on a bit more) he’s talking in circles, contradicting himself left and right, and just rambling about all the different realms he’s been in and how he’s the third being that was ever made next to god and satan, and a lot more in-depth things. I had him try and draw the different realms he’s “saved” and explain them to me (him and I have always been extremely close, I basically raised him, our childhood was rough, but the last few years since he’s been having episodes, he gets really angry that I can’t understand what he’s telling me so I was trying to just listen and understand as best I could) one of the “worlds” was full of dragons, one was full of evil bunny’s that spread darkness, and so on. I think me engaging in the conversation was, in a way, like pulling the mask off that he was so desperately trying to keep on long enough to get out of the hospital.
I feel like I’m rambling and getting a little lost, there’s just so much and I’m having a hard time really expressing it all. But, what I was getting at is, when he was 18 because when he first started going through this, and because he was so young, they wouldn’t diagnose him schizophrenia yet, but they assumed that that’s what it was. He always denied it, would get mad if anyone said anything about it, well yesterday for the first time since all of this he said “ sometimes being schizophrenic is fun” which was the first time he’s ever actually acknowledged it. But now I’m not so sure that’s what it is, or maybe it is but it’s mixed with something else, and here’s why.
So, like I said earlier, he’s become a master of lies and manipulation, or so that’s how it’s been perceived. He’s got this job, he’s had for a little while, they don’t even know his real name (except payroll) no one even knows his actual name, he goes by something else there, he said it’s because “they think I’m someone who doesn’t even exist” well, at this job, he has told them his family died in a house fire, he’s told coworkers he would slit his own throat and live, and I guess just a lot of things like that, and he claims it’s all lies. He never said any of it, like full on angry that someone would even say he said these things. (The guy who got him the job lives next door to my mom so when anything is said or done that’s a little off he tells her) so, I asked him if I went down to his job and asked them what was actually said, and they had multiple witnesses that could attest to you saying these things, would you try and get help because you’re clearly not remembering things. THEN he goes to say, if that happened it’s because his doppelgänger came down to the job and said these things, but that it was not him.
I’m just at a loss. He’s got a reason for everything, even if it doesn’t make a lot of sense to any of us, he’s fully convinced of it all. To the point where I’m concerned that maybe he has multiple personality disorder and genuinely is not remembering when his personality is switching and that his personality that goes to work is a whole different person with a whole different name and saying all these things and that’s why he doesn’t remember or is he just manipulating it and lying about all of it so that he doesn’t seem as ill as he really is so that he can get out?
Has anyone else experienced this? And if so, was it psychosis or schizophrenia or multiple personalities? Am I reading too much into it? I’m just worried. He’s also expressed since the very beginning that he refuses to take any medicine. He doesn’t wanna do that and he’s an adult so no one can force him. He was manipulating the nurse at the beginning into thinking that he really was okay to the point where she didn’t even think he needs to stay and then the next day she called and said that he would be staying for at least a week to 9 days, and she was telling my mom that he’s very good at crying on command and that he knows exactly what to say, but I truly believe the longer he stays the more he will start losing touch with reality again, and not be able to mask it as much as he’s been.
I’m just lost and I don’t even know if this post makes any sense at all but if anyone could help or give advice, it would be greatly appreciated because I’m just lost. I miss my sweet brother, and it truly is breaking my heart to see him this way.