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HELP - Is my raging brother bi-polar???
I'm very concerned for my twin brother. Over the past few years he has attacked our mom with harsh words and insults, blaming her for everything wrong with his life, even the minor things. It's becoming progressively worse, and when my older brother came down to visit, he witnessed my twin's raging outbursts, wishing our mom dead, screaming that she's a 'sinful witch doomed to hell for doing nothing with her life', because she's getting older and doesn't help around the house and never gave a damn about our emotional struggles, so it's just very stressful.
My parents won't do anything to help him, my older brother suggested my twin should go to a gym to get his stress out, but my twin won't DO anything about it, just keeps screaming at us. I'm starting to be afraid of him, he seems to think he can treat me and my mom like crap because we're girls. It's only recently that he's started finding things to blame our dad for. Is it possible he's bi-polar?
If this is the way he treats his family, I'm assuming he'd treat his future family the same. I want to help him fix whatever he's going through.
We shared a rough childhood, were never allowed to cry even while our mom screamed at us and beat us with the belt, and the only person we could ever go to for advice was our older brother, who was absent for most of our childhood. I was wondering if kids who are forced to supress their emotional needs ever act up when they're older, if the emotions that are bottled up over all those years finally spill out into a violent rage?
I'm afraid he will start getting physical soon, and no one is making a move to help him.
Today was one of his worst rages. My mom took away his driving priviledges, which means he can't go to his part-time job, so it went like this: one minute he's calm, laughing about a text his friend sent him, then he lost his priviledge, and started almost crying/screaming at my parents that they're taking everything away from him, that they want him to die, and he screamed at them to just kill him right there. In the end he got his way and went to his job. It's like this every other day now. Is my brother bi-polar? Is there some kind of treatment or therapy for him?
My parents won't do anything to help him, my older brother suggested my twin should go to a gym to get his stress out, but my twin won't DO anything about it, just keeps screaming at us. I'm starting to be afraid of him, he seems to think he can treat me and my mom like crap because we're girls. It's only recently that he's started finding things to blame our dad for. Is it possible he's bi-polar?
If this is the way he treats his family, I'm assuming he'd treat his future family the same. I want to help him fix whatever he's going through.
We shared a rough childhood, were never allowed to cry even while our mom screamed at us and beat us with the belt, and the only person we could ever go to for advice was our older brother, who was absent for most of our childhood. I was wondering if kids who are forced to supress their emotional needs ever act up when they're older, if the emotions that are bottled up over all those years finally spill out into a violent rage?
I'm afraid he will start getting physical soon, and no one is making a move to help him.
Today was one of his worst rages. My mom took away his driving priviledges, which means he can't go to his part-time job, so it went like this: one minute he's calm, laughing about a text his friend sent him, then he lost his priviledge, and started almost crying/screaming at my parents that they're taking everything away from him, that they want him to die, and he screamed at them to just kill him right there. In the end he got his way and went to his job. It's like this every other day now. Is my brother bi-polar? Is there some kind of treatment or therapy for him?
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I would agree that it doesn't sound like bipolar to me. It sounds like an anger management problem and considering your childhood it is reasonable he'd act this way. Therapy does help. I've seen a lot of progress in my Father since he started seeing a psychologist. But he must want to be helped.
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It sounds like your brother's childhood is quite enough to explain why he now has an anger problem. Your theory of kids' suppression causing rage in later years is valid.
Your brother probably just needs anger management therapy. I say "just", because talking therapy is a mild treatment, but of course one mustn't take that to mean that it will be easy and quick. And it's sad, but if your brother doesn't choose to submit to therapy, then it's nearly impossible to make him unless he actually does something violent and the police get involved. But go and try to find someone who specialises in anger management therapy, even get an appointment with them and tell them your situation and they'll know a lot more about how to deal with the problem than I will.