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Kelly

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

But that's what we started to notice in the beginning is that he just did not want to stay on them.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

And every time he was off the medications is when the psychosis would start happening again.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

And also I would say for this, as I had spoken with my mom recently, she would want people to know at this point where Brian was is the point where anyone dealing with a situation like this should try to get a HIPAA release form.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

Or I don't know how, like if you can at this extent, but I'm not a professional or anything, so I'm not sure like how it exactly works, but what's it called?

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

Power of attorney.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

So like when you have a family member that is still coherent or isn't so far gone that they can make this decision with you to let you as a family member have information or availability to their information, that is when you should decide.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

make it happen for them so so what she's trying to say is like right away get this release form but we did not do that it was all so new to us obviously like there's no manual there's nothing that tells you how to handle a situation like this it all happened so fast and just so rapidly that and during covid it was the worst time because

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

You couldn't go into the hospital with him.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

At this point, there was really no way to get information about Brian because he's an adult.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

So we didn't know exactly what was going on with him.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

But yes, when he came out of the hospital, he stopped taking his medication and then he went back to his psychosis.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

What his psychosis would look like.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

Would be accusations against anyone really.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

It was a lot against my dad.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

All these accusations that didn't make sense.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

Or were just very deep.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

That kind of just broke our family apart right then and there.

We're All Insane
Schizophrenia Took My Brother

Because they were so... They were just so bad.