My brother suffers from mental health issues, has done his entire adult life. He has schizophrenia and has been ok but just angry and nasty for the past five years (before which he had a major psychosis, which he blames me for).
If you met him you wouldn’t know there’s anything wrong. He seems like a happy jolly chap who loves his kids and makes lots of jokes, the life and soul of the party. For years most of my family thought we were just exaggerating or making up his illness (this is called anosognosia, where the individual just hasn’t a clue they are ill). They have been convinced by him, through drip drip drip feeding, that I and his ex wife are to blame for his ‘mild depression’ as he calls it.
He just despises me. I was in hospital with sepsis last week and he just did not care, text, ask ‘are you ok’. Today he is coming round as he will, inevitably, ask for money. Again. I hate it. I actually just am done with him.