A few weeks back, I think I mentioned that my sister said the cops came to her house as a "Wellness Check" on my nephew because of something he wrote on Facebook. Someone out there he has as a Facebook friend called the cops. Apparently my nephew wrote something like "I'm a 30 year old man, with no job, and my brother [we lost him to suicide]". When my sister told me this, I asked her "Has he EVER even gone to therapy about all of this?" The answer was no.


Well, my sister today told me he is in a Partial Hospitalization Program near me. I'm relieved. He has apparently been sleeping all day for several weeks. He definitely needs help. Unfortunately, his mental wellness was not paid attention to sufficiently. We've all known he has Asperger's and ADD since he was a child. He also may have a seizure disorder, or other neurological disorder. But so often mood stuff goes with it, or is an obvious result of what he's been through. I won't even mention the worst of it! I hope this PHP helps him. I told my sister that I want to ask him to visit me a lot once his program turns into an IOP (3 hours/day instead of 6). I think he needs someone besides his parents. He has no friends. His outpatient program is only a 3 minute drive from my house.


My nephew is likely a hoarder with obsessive compulsive tendencies. I hope that's addressed, too. My sister told me he had been spending all day for years with his obsession about 3-D printing. His room is filled with 3-D printing paraphernalia. He spends all his money on that. He's particularly into printing 3-D images of brains from CT scans and MRIs. A while back, I had offered to give him my PET scan and MRI results. I am now happy I didn't. He has brains all over his room.