First, thanks again for the outpouring of support yesterday when I posted this: At what point do you, as a liberal, cut off a snake of a family member with a histpry of biting you?
Well, some developments in the last 24 hours. I just shut off my phone and went to sleep last night, not even bothering to go to him with a little food. But because of the suicide threats, our parents Baker Acted him (we’re in Florida). After my weekend stint at work, I had to run around the city to fetch his keys so I could get his dog and drop her off with our parents. All afternoon and evening, he keeps calling from a mental health facility. I made it clear early on I did that driving around for that dog and because our father asked, not for him. I told him again and again that I’m financially and emotionally drained from being his ‘support structure’ for half the time he’s been on this Earth (he says he needs ‘support structure’ upon release, whenever that is). Yet he’s still pushing. He even signed off on me being his ‘representative’ or whatever (or so he claims) to circumvent HIPAA, despite knowing how pissed off I am with him. He clearly still expects me to prop him up, just like after his two brief jail stints (only a few weeks for both, one year probation after the second release) and when he was once Baker Acted as a teen.
I wasn’t lying when I said that, financially and emotionally, I can’t do this anymore, but he’ll be persistent. This might have created even more problems. He’s already feeding the psych there this weekend a sob story because the cops ‘diagnosed’ him with multiple personality disorder. I just hope she’s good enough to see obvious attempts at manipulation from someone who’s almost certainly a narcissist.