Help! Can anyone figure this out - Schizophrenia Message Board

Asenath · 05-14-2003, 09:31 AM

I have a friend with an eccentric family. I've never really seen bahvior like this, and I am wondering what the problem is. Let's start with her brother...

He is 40 years old and has held 2 jobs for about 6 months his entire life. He is completely supported by his parents. He lives in a trailer with a very unstable woman. His mother says he "lacks the capacity to plan" and has suffered from depression. I think it goes beyond this. His personal appearance is shoddy (long hair, skinny, rarely showers) and he is very shy. Yet despite this he is reasonably intelligent.

Now his father is even stranger. He smacks his lips all the time and essentially babbles, seemingly unable to put together a meaningful train of thought. He's always been like this! He is quiet and in his "own world." Occasionally, you can have a conversation with him, but it is frustrating. And he went to an Ivy league school! But after graduating, he worked as a civil engineer but never got past junior status.

What is the deal with this family? Is this a psychotic disorder? Autism? Schizophrenia? If any doctos visit the site, or if anyone has any ideas, feel free to comment.

booherap · 05-17-2003, 07:18 PM

Your brother seems like to have schizophrenia, and i don't know about your father. Plus i am not a doctor

normorcrazy · 05-19-2003, 02:02 PM

I, too, am not a doctor, but these really don't sound like any characteristics of schizophrenia. I think there are so many mental illnesses out there that they may be suffering from something else, unless they have more symptoms you are unaware of.

normorcrazy · 05-19-2003, 02:03 PM

I, too, am not a doctor, but these really don't sound like any characteristics of schizophrenia. I think there are so many mental illnesses out there that they may be suffering from something else, unless they have more symptoms you are unaware of.

mrtibbs42 · 06-29-2003, 11:11 PM

It sounds to me (and I will put money on it) this family is suffering from a generational curse. If you check, you will find that the different behavoirs you see in these two people will also have existed in their other relatives i.e, grands siblings, aunts & uncles and a strong possibility in 1st, 2nd & 3rd genrational cousins. There is a remedy for their condition.

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