Kelly

I, I think I knew, I think I just knew from the start.

I think I also, you know, being his twin, I just... You could sense it.

Yeah, I just felt it.

So after that conversation, probably not too long after that, my brother called me, my older brother, Robert.

It was later at night.

it was probably around 1 or 2 a.m., and he was, he was just freaking out about my brother, Brian, and my dad being in a fight.

He was like, Brian is trying to fight dad.

I don't know, like, what he's talking about.

He's just really upset, and I'm not sure what to do, and I'm like,

Like, what is the fight even about?

And Robert didn't really know either, but what we know now is Brian basically

Like, he was kind of out of nowhere in the morning, was just so upset.

He started, like, yelling and screaming at my dad and calling him gay.

Just saying, just accusing him of being gay, which, you know, my dad... I mean, I don't know for sure, for sure, but, like, as far as we know, isn't, like, there's...

yeah so he was just making accusations against my dad and just in screaming at him and he wouldn't he wouldn't calm down my dad was saying he was trying to get brian to calm down but no nobody could get him to and then he did started becoming violent which my dad told him if he doesn't cool down then he does have to call the cops so the cops were called that night and then brian was put in a 72-hour hold in the mental health

facility and i can't think back all the way to that memory i'm not sure exactly how that played out but when he got home he was on medications which he stopped taking and did they diagnose him during that hold they had diagnosed him with bipolar at that point

And I think even one doctor was talking about it like being from COVID.

So that's where we were at at that point.

But a big thing is to somebody as an adult with mental illness, it's hard, as you probably know, for them to stay on medications.

especially with Brian's disorder as he's not aware of it and it's it's hard for him to know that he does have a disorder so he doesn't know why he needs to be on medication um so that has been our biggest our biggest hardship with with all of this is keeping him on medications