call dss and get you mothe r to come ang et him.. he needs help an for his safety if he is in this type of home get hime help.. if his father is intervening.. get him outside help there are free counselors out there outside of school... and 800 number that he can call to talk things through anything is a start.. but if the school is breakinghis trust go else where were he can be heard
Thank you for your reply. I have suggested he see the school psychologist specifically and instead he began talking to his guidance councelor. I'm trying to be as unbias about this as I can, but his father is really a very manipulative sadistic person. His father is also a teacher at his school and althought the student has confidentiality I doubt that his guidance councelor has offered him that. After he was talking to his guidance councelor about coming to live in Arizona his father bought him an expensive dirt bike, but he can't ride it until he is 16 and his father doesn't let him ride it. So it just ended up being another thing that his father uses to say "no, you can't do this until I'm ready", which seems to be how it always is with his father. I'm debating calling the school psychologist and talking to him/her about the situation and asking this person to quietly schedule talks with my brother. He's under a lot of stress and he's afraid to do anything, but he won't tell me why or he will give me some excuse about making his father feel guilty, but he also wants to vent to me everyday about things. I told him he has to think about himself and not worry about his father that his father will love him no matter what his decision is. I don't know if I really believe that but it's what I told my brother so that he would feel more confident about making a change for himself. When he as a little boy he came home from his fathers house that weekend the day before we were going on vacation and he hid under the table crying. His father told him that if he went on vacation he was going to die. So I suspect that he has been dealing with a lifelong dose of this kind of manipulation and it's really coming down on him now. I'm scared and I don't know what to do the situation is so fragile.
Schizophrenia and all other mental ailments have tons of criterias in a manual for psychological disorders. If the diagnose doesn't fit the symptoms, it is something else. That's robably why psychologists and psychiatrists have such a long education and much training.
Where does the border go between hallucination and nightmare? Ooooh, I really don't know anymore. Things from the past can rear up while we sleep if we don't work on them while we're awake. The brain does control a whole lot on its own while we're sleeping. The more we wear out, the more does it remind us that we need to pay attention to things going on.
You have a strong story. With much going on for him, it is important that he finds someone to entrust. 15, they're vulernable and seeking their identity, they're quite strong but still it is a teenager in that body. How would it be to suggest him to seek a school counselor? At least it is a start and someone to talk to about the stress.
Florena