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[quote=Anonymous]OP here again. Thank you for your support and kind words, PPs. Thanks additionally to the mental health professional for the book recommendation. I will check it out and show to DH. We are still digesting this. It will be an enormous challenge to bring BIL to understanding what is happening and for us to know our place in this. He believes he has found "his path" and clings to this reality. I understand why--if he has been suffering for years, and he has finally found something that makes him feel even marginally better (an amalgam of various eastern religions/new agey-ness/the metaphysical), why would he want to give that up? DH and I have been trying to identify his triggers--what makes him very agitated--so that we can bring his sisters and parents on board for the holidays to say, "hey, let's all try to avoid confronting or diminishing or talking him out of his admittedly wild assertions" (for instance, he believes he can heal people and bend hard metal objects with his mind; he also believes he can remove flouride from water by touching the glass and meditating) because that will do nothing but irritate him. THat is our challenge in the next month--to get all on same page. I feel like I have taken control of this even though it is DH's family--it's a strange feeling.

Thank you again for the support. I could not have gotten to this point without it.[/quote]

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