[k4ppa]

Hi,

I'm new to these forums. I have come here for desperate help. I am extremely worried for my brother. And so is my family.



My brother has been acting weird since a month or two atleast. He sits in his room all day and doesn't do much. Most of the time I either see him playing video games or sleeping at some crazy hour. Or he just sits on his bed doing virtually nothing.... Staring. He does not talk to any of his friends anymore, and he never uses his cell phone. He rarely drives the car too. He sits there pretty blank, does not say much, and most of the time he will take some time to answer you. And some times... you really have to make your presence known and repeat yourself several times at times before he gives a very simple answer. He is very quiet aswell. He does not speak loud. Over the course of 3 days out of town I was only able to make him giggle a handful of times, which is something at least I suppose.

He will not speak to me or my family about what happened. I tried my best to support him. I talked to him an hour about how I'm here for him and he does not need to hide things. I tried to convince him to talk to me but all I got was that 'he does not know what he smoked'. I don't know what happened... and whether he really smoked something he didn't know or was drugged by someone. I can't get him to talk. He rarely eats either. His diet is that of of a small animal. We offer him food all the time but he just ends up not eating it. Oh and he seems to still be smoking cigarettes. We tried to help him stop.. but it never worked. We would like to see him recover.. and stop smoking.


I'm really really scared for my brother. I feel like he is half vegetable at times. I don't know what to do. Please help if you can. My parents don't want to take him to the doctors because they are afraid they might take him away or something.



Thank you,

k4