I don’t even know which category to post this under.
I’m trying to understand what the hell is going on with my DB. The reason I am concerned is because we have some obvious but undiagnosed MH issues in our family but this might also cause me to overreact.
I absolutely love my brother and he is one of the most important people in my life. There was a lot of dysfunction in our family and I only realised much later how much he did to protect and “parent” me. Long story short is that each parent had a favourite child, but I was “lucky” enough to be favoured by the more normal one.
DB is probably the smartest and logical person I know, but he’s been getting more volatile and somewhat reckless over the last two years. The cynic in me thinks that maybe it’s just what middle aged men are like, but I’m also so nervous that it could be an indicator of MH issues.
It’s now reached the stage where it’s getting a bit uncomfortable. More frequent fights with people, some vengeful or calculated campaigns, now a gf that is had his age 🙄
Still supportive of me but seems somewhat “mechanical” when he talks about others, and it was never this bad.
DH thinks he is as “nuts” as he has ever been but I really see a chance. But then I don’t think I have met someone who went through the whole classical mid life crisis thing so I might be thinking of this incorrectly.
Thank you