We have all been on our own since our 20s when our last relatives died. Mom when we were 23 and Dad at 5. We were so stressed out the three of us went our own ways. My sis and I 23 and my brother 25. He joined a religious organization and had religious delusions. He told me that all the Saints at the last dinner came to speak to him one at a time. He was a successful golfer at the time but after the financial crisis lived in his car and would not live anywhere else. He has never been to a doctor. I can’t help him I have sent him money over the years but we are now 73 and 77. I was told today by a psychiatrist who listened to his story that he was likely Schizophrenic with negative symptoms . I though he might me but it explains why I can’t help him and his different beliefs and refusal of traditional medicine and him being able to stare at a wall for hours. It shouldn’t have been a shock but it was. I suspected it. I am an RN It is a relief in a way. We, my sis and I pretended all these years that he was just odd but we have rare contact too. My daughter, his grandaugter found him supportive living, as he would not accept an apt. I guess I am thankful for the diagnosi but it explains a lot of things and I take it less personally, but I hurt because he seems sad.
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Welcome to the forum. I am really glad that your brother is in supportive housing as that is often the family’s biggest worry. The “kids” did some really good work. Are you familiar with the symptom anosognosia? I think it could possibly be sad to have no one understand your struggles when you can’t comprehend them yourself.
I am not but I am going to look it up right now
If you like, after you have read a bit, we can discuss what all anosognosia can mean.