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Bf's brother again. Before I've posted that he has neurological Lyme disease and he has also tested positive for Bartonella (sp?), a disease that supposedly rots your brain (haven't done any real research to back that up, I'll warn you guys now). From the get-go, I've always just thought he has undiagnosed schizophrenia, maybe even paranoid schizo, although he acts like a person who could be labeled as bi-polar, his moods aren't swingy or extreme up or down......he seems to be almost like Jim Carrey's character in Me, Myself and Irene......except he's several different people. So it's not like it's mood swings or even moods, it's different personas.
Anyway, he goes through phases that last weeks or even months......once in a while he is himself (or what bf says the old him used to be), then something sets him off or whatever and he's crazy chatterbox talks to himself or talks-like-a-computer or antisocial lock-himself-in-his-room, sometimes on top of that he becomes paranoid.....for example one day he didn't shut his bedroom door and he thought that someone went in there. Ever since, he always locks it and keeps the key with him.....even if he just goes to the bathroom down the hall. He once thought there was an infestation in his mattress, so he covered it all in plastic wrap and slept on the floor or his couch for weeks. When he acts like that, he also becomes obsessed with starting arguments, acting passive aggressive to hit the right nerves with especially my bf. He has the most odd sleep patterns, and this is coming from someone who is a vampire. He also will stomp upstairs and just start howling about his disease or whatever medical issues and bellow louder and louder and his parents are trying to watch TV or eat and the more they ignore him, the louder he gets.
He had been acting normal for almost all of December, even getting along fairly well with my bf. Unfortunately, bf and I never learn that his persona will shift and anything can change. We get a little too comfy when he's acting normal so we come out of hiding in my bf's room and start watching TV or eating downstairs nearby his brother's room.
We supposedly kept him awake for several hours while we were watching TV, even though it wasn't loud and he never said anything until he was ready to burst. He did the passive aggressive routine, where he started out nicely asking if we could please go watch TV elsewhere because he was trying to sleep, but then he got a little snooty and said that he'd been trying for hours to sleep and it was too loud, then he took it to another level and said that it was only common sense that if there is someone in a room next to you, you don't watch TV very loudly because they may be trying to sleep. (Ok, then why when we use the bathroom to get ready for bed at 5 am sometimes is there music or a movie playing in his bedroom?).
So we gave up and went to bed. Bf said that all that past week, every night between 1-3 am, his brother would knock on his door and ask him for cigarettes, even though bf needs to be up in the morning, so that was extremely hypocritical, and that while we may have overwelcomed our stay in the basement, it's more common sense that if someone is bugging you, you tell them before you get yourself upset.
I'm waiting for the call one day this week where bf will be in a rage over the next thing his brother says or stunt he pulls. He's already gone off the deep end before accusing my bf of stealing the illegal prescription drugs he orders online, he's even gone so far as to threaten to call the police on my bf *and once or twice his PARENTS who OWN the house* because they are walking or talking or watching TV too loudly and he wants to sleep.
I feel so bad for my bf and his family sometimes. I just wonder why his parents even put up with him. I know the real answer to that, but I can't really say it because it's a scary thought, but to me....just experiencing enough mental illness in my family, I know it's just a manipulation.
Anyway, he goes through phases that last weeks or even months......once in a while he is himself (or what bf says the old him used to be), then something sets him off or whatever and he's crazy chatterbox talks to himself or talks-like-a-computer or antisocial lock-himself-in-his-room, sometimes on top of that he becomes paranoid.....for example one day he didn't shut his bedroom door and he thought that someone went in there. Ever since, he always locks it and keeps the key with him.....even if he just goes to the bathroom down the hall. He once thought there was an infestation in his mattress, so he covered it all in plastic wrap and slept on the floor or his couch for weeks. When he acts like that, he also becomes obsessed with starting arguments, acting passive aggressive to hit the right nerves with especially my bf. He has the most odd sleep patterns, and this is coming from someone who is a vampire. He also will stomp upstairs and just start howling about his disease or whatever medical issues and bellow louder and louder and his parents are trying to watch TV or eat and the more they ignore him, the louder he gets.
He had been acting normal for almost all of December, even getting along fairly well with my bf. Unfortunately, bf and I never learn that his persona will shift and anything can change. We get a little too comfy when he's acting normal so we come out of hiding in my bf's room and start watching TV or eating downstairs nearby his brother's room.
We supposedly kept him awake for several hours while we were watching TV, even though it wasn't loud and he never said anything until he was ready to burst. He did the passive aggressive routine, where he started out nicely asking if we could please go watch TV elsewhere because he was trying to sleep, but then he got a little snooty and said that he'd been trying for hours to sleep and it was too loud, then he took it to another level and said that it was only common sense that if there is someone in a room next to you, you don't watch TV very loudly because they may be trying to sleep. (Ok, then why when we use the bathroom to get ready for bed at 5 am sometimes is there music or a movie playing in his bedroom?).
So we gave up and went to bed. Bf said that all that past week, every night between 1-3 am, his brother would knock on his door and ask him for cigarettes, even though bf needs to be up in the morning, so that was extremely hypocritical, and that while we may have overwelcomed our stay in the basement, it's more common sense that if someone is bugging you, you tell them before you get yourself upset.
I'm waiting for the call one day this week where bf will be in a rage over the next thing his brother says or stunt he pulls. He's already gone off the deep end before accusing my bf of stealing the illegal prescription drugs he orders online, he's even gone so far as to threaten to call the police on my bf *and once or twice his PARENTS who OWN the house* because they are walking or talking or watching TV too loudly and he wants to sleep.
I feel so bad for my bf and his family sometimes. I just wonder why his parents even put up with him. I know the real answer to that, but I can't really say it because it's a scary thought, but to me....just experiencing enough mental illness in my family, I know it's just a manipulation.
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