In his late teens my BIL went from being a sociable, funny, loving chap to completely withdrawing, hearing voices, believing people were controlling his life and having violent outbursts.
In 2011 he came to live with us temporarily and ended up staying for nearly 18 months. I got a good picture of the extent of his problems. He will not admit that there is anything wrong and puts his outbursts down to tiredness or just says that someone annoyed him.
Years ago his mum managed to get a PLN to the house to make some kind of assessment and they diagnosed a personality disorder and he was given medication which he never took. We have tried countless times to get him to the doctor and he was referred to anger management at one time but refused to attend any appointments saying that he was too busy.
He amazingly manages to hold it together in public most of the time and runs his own window cleaning round but I often see him parked in his car shouting at himself and hitting things. He frequently hits himself as well and gives himself horrendous black eyes and bruises which he blames on accidents.
I really just wanted to ask if anyone has been in this situation with someone who will not admit to having a problem and what you did about it. I would really like to be able to help him but when you try to talk to him he just clams up and denies everything.
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BIL has undiagnosed MH problem.
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Natmu · 17/01/2013 14:13
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