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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I appreciate your DH wanting to help. But there really isn't that much help out there for people who suffer from mental illness who are able to care for themselves and not interested in help. So I'm not sure what is so upsetting that your MIL tries to keep a positive outlook. Your BIL is already on SSDI so he already has the best benefit available without even having a diagnosis - income and healthcare. Unless you DH has some plan or idea of something available to your BIL that your BIL would accept, he should realize that your MIL is doing the best she can. It's not easy being the parent of a child with disabilities.

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OP here. This is helpful, and I see your points. They give him a lot of help financially, and they correspond with his landlord to pay his rent directly, so he isn't actually able to care for himself. He looks frightening--underfed, disheveled, glassy-eyed. He rambles endlessly in FB videos he posts. He posted a video in which he yelled "F You" a million times to all the people who "want me to change" in which he eventually ripped his shirt off on camera. He posts 8-minute videos in which he says the same phrase over and over again. And more. DH has alerted MIL to these. He does not seek healthcare because he believes in healing himself--herbs, chanting, potions. He thinks flouride is poison and believes he can remove it--as well as radiation--from water by holding a glass and chanting. He has been confronted by police, threatened with violence by someone whose wife he called a "bitch," and kicked out of multiple establishments. I am afraid that eventually he will say or do the wrong thing to someone and they will hurt him. I am just afraid for him.[/quote]

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