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sigh

It's been a long fucking day.

So yeah, updates

My brother was lucid during the afternoon and he said he apparently was trying out some sort of "transcendental meditation" he heard or read about on the internet. He kept talking about having his path to the energy of the universe getting obstructed because I interrupted his meditation when I called 911.

His "meditation" that, just to remind you, looked like he was having a seizure, and made him drool all over himself.

We also showed the doctor videos we took of him having fits, waving his arms around with his mouth wide open and stuff. And so the doctor told us that he must have induced a catatonic state during his "meditation".

Now, my mom revealed that he actually does have a history with seizures, but it was way back when he was a toddler around 1-3 years old. Naturally, I had no idea that was a thing since I'm only 2 years older than him, so I barely remember things at that age.

Now while all this was going on, my brother, who seemed pretty lucid and aware of his surroundings, was still doing weird hand wavy motions, twitching his back and face, and kept saying that he needed to "readjust his body's center of energy." He was also adamantly exclaiming that he was not insane, and that all he needed was time to finish his weird ritual.

He's had all sorts of tests done at this point; blood and urine, CT scans, MRIs, EEGs, and they all showed that he was normal. No drugs, no irregularities, nothing. The doctor was worried that my brother might not fully realize what was happening to him during his "episodes" because he kept doing it again and again since he kept saying that he was getting stuck during his "meditations," likely because he was inducing catatonia. So she recommended that we leave him in the psychiatric ED for observations and preliminary treatment before transferring him to a proper psych ward.

Thing is, beds in the ward were very scarce so she told us that it was likely that he might have to spend several days in the ED, which has a very strict no visitors policy, before a bed could open up. Obviously this was not good news for us. Leaving him all alone without being able to see him for almost a week in his very delicate condition is a very harsh circumstance for him and for us.

But what choice did we have? The doctor assured us that they would take very good care of him of course (which was not very reassuring after seeing how FUCKING SLOW things seemed to happen in the hospital), and he will always have the option to call us if anything does happen. All of us there--which were me, my mom, my younger brother, and my aunt and uncle--kept reassuring him that things were gonna be fine, that we believed everything he said and that he should explain everything that went on in his head to his doctors, and that he always had the option to call us if he didn't like what was going on.

It was... tough.

So that's how my day went potd, how was yours?
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