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My brother has paranoid schizophrenia and I’m terrified
Hi everyone, my brother has paranoid schizophrenia and I’m terrified for myself, my family and my brother. He isn’t dangerous to us, he actually tries to protect us. These voices he hears tell him to do horrible things and after a while of not complying the voices started telling him that they were going to murder him and also his family. He is so paranoid that he has made my parents install cameras, gate the windows and even buy security doors. He has blocked up the windows that are ground level with wooden planks. I don’t even know where to begin. He has admitted to trying to commit suicide because the voices told him to do it but thankfully hasn’t gone through with it. He’s been to a psych hospital a total of 3 times and begged my parents to take him out. He tells the doctors he doesn’t hear them anymore and that he’s fine. He is in denial of having this illness and thinks the devils are in his body. The voices he hears are people he actually knows in real life. I don’t know what to expect from someone with schizophrenia. There are times he laughs to himself or we see him crying, we haven’t seen any anger towards us but because my father reminds him that it’s an illness he started saying the devil has also entered my fathers body to make sure my brother is “slowed down” from revealing the truth about these “devils”. He tells us everything the voices say and to be completely honest I’m terrified. I try to put myself in his shoes but I can’t begin to imagine what he’s going through. We tell him that nobody will hurt him and we will protect him. He agrees that they won’t come and then 5 minutes later he’s looking around the house to close off another entrance that they tell him they are going to go through to make sure they murder him. What do I do to help him? Should I be scared? Would I be hurting my brother even more by telling his doctors he’s lying about not hearing voices? Also he refuses to go to another inpatient facility but does go to a psych and takes his medication and also monthly injection. He’s been on his medicine for 7 months now and there isn’t any improvement.
