Hopefully my brother makes it

I’ve posted about my brother in the past. Long story short he has schizophrenia and has been in and out of hospital and jail for over a decade now. So this last time he was locked up, he spent the last ten months of his sentence at the state hospital to get well enough to stand trial. Anyways after those ten months they determined he had served enough time and let him out. I’ve hung out with him a few times and he seems to be ok. He never had insight or believed he was schizophrenic in the past. I still don’t know how much insight he has cause we didn’t talk about it much. But just the fact he’s able to have a conversation is a huge deal. Anyways that’s the update. Also my sister is pregnant again. This will be her third child. Lots of exciting things going on.

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Yeah, that sounds like a huge improvement. It seems to me that four or five years ago you told a few stories about how violent he got with you and your mom. At least I think it was you, I’m not positive. Maybe 10 months in a hospital actually did someone some good.

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well cool for you and your brother…congrats on the new baby too.

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Yeah that was me. It’s the reason he was locked up this last time. We’ve tried to do a lot for him for a long time.

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Maybe the passage of time has helped him.

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Nah just the fact that he had to stay on meds for 10 months. Hopefully he’s got some insight or at least understands his situation. The longest he’s ever been on meds was a month from a shot.

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