My brother is mentally ill and will not get help... what should my family do?

My brother is 37 years old. He has epilepsy and has been homeless out on the street for a few years now. My parents and I have tried to help him out for years, but he has a horrible temper and becomes violent. The reason why he is currently out on the street is because we are all afraid to have him in our homes. He stops taking his medication for his epilepsyy constantly... he thinks he can treat his seizures by smoking pot. He is constantly in the hospital for seizures.





My family and I are at wits end and feel completely helpless. He will not listen to anyone. He says it鈥檚 our fault that he is homeless because we will not get him an apartment or let him live with one of us. Up until recently we sent him money, but due to the economy all of us are having a hard time paying our own bills.





He has already been to jail twice on assault charges and we think he may be bi-polar, but he will not share any of his medical information with us and we don't have access since he is an adult.





Last Christmas he was beaten and found by the cops and taken to a hospital for treatment and the staff at the hospital tried to get him treatment for mental illness, but he checked himself out instead. This Christmas he had a seizure and fell into a fire and received 3rd degree burns on his leg. He is in the hospital and again the staff recognizes that there is a mental illness and is offering him help, but he wants to be discharged instead. What do we do?





He will not talk to any of us and if he does he always ends up getting verbally abusive and ranting on the phone.





Has anyone else had any experience with something like this? I am open to any advice!My brother is mentally ill and will not get help... what should my family do?
President Regan closed down most government mental hospitals long ago. Since then there has been little or no help for these people. Many of them have died since then.You can try to have him commited for the safety of others,as well as himself, but that doesn't always work out. And the state would put him in a prison like facility.He has to want to help himself first.It's winter time,and the worst time to be on the streets.Many homeless people freeze to death because they drink cheap alcohol and don't realize how cold it is.All you can do is tell him you love him and hope he gets help before it's too late.My brother is mentally ill and will not get help... what should my family do?
Talk to an attorney. You may have to take him to court to have him declared mentally unfit and your parents could then make the decision to have him committed. He sure sound like a danger to himself and to others from your description.
well he's obliviously a danger to himself.. idk try and get him committed. or do an intervention.





if all else fails, lock him in the basement
tell him this is for his own good. and give him an intervention.


and he really needs help. make sure he knows you love him.
If he was a truly in danger to himself, an emergency room doctor could have kept him in the hospital and treated him without his consent. I don't know what's going on.





Maybe he's perfectly fine, you know? He may have a mental illness, but as long as he can make decisions for himself, there's nothing you can do.
This is going to sound strange but I think your brother knows what he is doing and because you are all soft on him and worry about him, he is playing with your mind.





You need to back off and make him make his own mistakes and this will let him see that help is what he need.





At the moment he is taking you all for a fool and it seems to be working.





Pray to your Lord and tell your Lord that you are leaving your brother in his hands, this way your brother will be protected.