There's your answer. No medication. His behavior has now gone off the charts. He seems on the verge of psychosis. Has he actually hit someone in the house or actually burned down anything or are these stories he tells.

I think whether or not he is a psychopath, he certainly seems to have serious psychiatric problems that need immediate attention. Is your mom safe with him in the house? She may be too stunned to know what to do.

Irrespective it may be time to have him involuntarily hospitalized. They will at least get him back on meds. The problem with meds is that some do have side effects and it takes a long time to adjust the medication so the individual is comfortable. Some people with bipolar disorder do not like the calmness.

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He says he's burned down a former friends house and my mom for a fact that it did burn....this was in the late 80's. This friend suspected it was my brother, but could never prove it. He also claims to have thrown a bomb in a girls car (he was arrested last year for explaining how to make a bomb to his therapist..he wanted to bomb a mosque, so his therapist reported it. The FBI searched his apartment and found nothing, the charges were dropped in the end. Very recently he reported a current friend to Social Security...apparenty this friend had a second job off the books and collected disability from SS. He ended up being fired from the second job...and asked my brother if he had anything to do with it. My brother denied it, but told my mom that he did report him. Revenge is what he wants. He brags that he has done these things and never gets caught...says he plans them well!! Who knows....but we didn't stick around to find out!!
He hasn't hit anyone in the house, just the walls, which resulted in holes. My mom has left the house, we all left the state actually. We ended up having him arrested. He is in jail right now, with no bond. She taped some of their coversations and he was recorded on tape that he was "going to shove my fist so far down your f***ing throat"...this is what he said to my 68 year old mother. He was also recorded saying how he was going to kill me, my husband and then her...how he was going to stab the bodies so badly they wouldn't be able to be identified.
Hopefully he will be evaluated in jail and they will see that he needs help. He knows he is sick, in fact that is his free ticket out of trouble, or so he thinks! He has said this over and over again to a few people he has been hanging with the past couple of months. He has a letter from the attorney that got him off the bomb threat last year, saying he has severe mental problems and to call him if needed. This attorney even told my brother that this is NOT his meal ticket, this is only if he needs it for some self defense matter, or something like that.
In any case, thank you so much for your input. Please reply with any other opinions or questions. I have my computer back now, so i will be checking here daily.

Can you read my post called "Is my daughter a P?" No one has replied and I am confused about what has happened in my family. Would appreciate your imput.

Questions about psychopaths:

1) Why do they have trouble holding on to jobs. Do they have problems with focusing on tasks? It would seem there are a number of occupations they should do well at. Like sales. Why can't they do it.

2) Why this revolving door relationship pattern. Why do they leave and come back?

3) Why are their emotions chaotic yet facade very mellow and self possessed.

4) Why do they hate us their mark. I don't get the hostility towards someone who usually helps them with money or whatever. Wouldn't it make more sense for them to be nice and milk us ever more? Why are they such sadists?

Maybe you can shed soem light.

Hi

I think the answer is that there is no answer - they do whatever they need to inorder to get thier kicks - control and omination - the pwere of lies and building their own reality. Yet they all have an anchor - usually at a distance so they can crawl back when they have been found out. But they can't stay - they recharge on the support from the anchor then run when they spot the next victim/scam etc.....

Thats my view .. any comments...

Best of luck

recovery

1) they can't hold a job because they are superficial, they can't go deep and develop. they 'll have great idea but that is about it and they can't have any good relationship with anyone, one day or the another they will enervate their collegue, and final who wants to work with them. the truth is that there is many, more than many that holds jobs, and manage to hide their true colors for too long.