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[quote=Anonymous]This makes me sad. I had a brother who was diagnosed as a teen with bipolar w/schizoid tendencies. He also had manic depression added at 17. It was a very long hard road for my family. My mother passed away when he was 20 and that jolted him into a bad bender and then he "seemed" to just outgrow it and led a normal, very successful like for roughly 6/7 years. A month before his 31st birthday, he plunged into a sudden psychosis, stopped sleeping, began having gangs talking, delusions that he was God. My Dad and I tried to get help, but we were met with barriers at every turn. We could not get him to voluntarily commit himself, go get help, or get through to him. He would just go silent and go inside himself. He had full blown paranoia schizophrenia and leapt to his death at 30 yo. We are forever broken as well as his friends and roommate. Please get help. Do whatever it takes. If you can, see if you can get a short-term residential facility. In retrospect, my Dad feels that he should have sent him to one when he was a teen so that he learned coping skills and how to properly use medicine and self-care to guide himself through life. I now advocate for NIMH and 411 to help others. Godspeed. [/quote]

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