tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post115906664405030560..comments2024-03-18T03:28:36.581-04:00Comments on Shrink Rap: In The Family WayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1159131351318963012006-09-24T16:55:00.000-04:002006-09-24T16:55:00.000-04:00Perhaps you could lobby our governor to provide su...Perhaps you could lobby our governor to provide support goats to the distressed family members of mentally ill inmates?Dinahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09227988351623862689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26666124.post-1159070970448106112006-09-24T00:09:00.000-04:002006-09-24T00:09:00.000-04:00Ok, for a second I thought you were announcing a p...Ok, for a second I thought you were announcing a pregnancy.<BR/><BR/>*chain has been officially yanked, or leg has been pulled* hee hee<BR/><BR/>That's very interesting.<BR/><BR/>I have a brother who, it seemed out of the blue, from a good Mormon family, married, with three kids, all of a sudden (not really, as behind the scenes he started with other things and eventually worked his way to this) embezzles some money, thus ending his career as an accountant, his marriage, and lands himself in jail after months of various court appearances, etc.<BR/><BR/>I had those same thoughts, of, "Good. Now mebbe he'll realize something, having to live the consequences." I mean, I felt bad that he was hurting (although from his own actions, though), and in a scary place, and hoped that nobody hurt him there or anything . . . I was ANGRY, as he tried to involve ME in the embezzleing by sending "envelopes" to my address, and that was when the spit hit the fan, and everyone found out, and we were told to just mark it return to sender . . . so I had, and still have I guess, a lot of anger that he'd put me and my little family in legal and moral jeopardy . . .<BR/><BR/>Anyway. He got prescribed Wellbutrin, which he's still on, and he's alot more even, now. I don't know the diagnosis, but I'd guess that he's probably bipolar.<BR/><BR/>I still don't know how I feel about having a, well, jailbird brother, cause I've never sorted it out. He was in for 5 months, about 4-5 years ago.<BR/><BR/>Like you wanted to know that! <BR/><BR/>I kinda wanted to ask him about his experience w/shrinks in jail (before I ever met you guys) because I kinda wanted to know if they diagnosed him, so I'd know what to tell in the family history for the mental health professionals I started seeing last year.<BR/><BR/>He still had farther to go to hit rock bottom, though, after getting out of jail . . . a couple years of that, though, and then he started turning his life around. Seems to be on the straight and narrow. Like you want to know all THAT . .<BR/><BR/>Anyway, I guess I have all sorts of mixed up feelings about it.Sarebearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09208596053319110470noreply@blogger.com