(August 25, 2015 at 8:29 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(August 25, 2015 at 7:34 pm)Salacious B. Crumb Wrote: I definitely don't want to be around him drinking, he literally completely loses his fucking mind. He can go from laughing his ass off to screaming like a fucking maniac.A substance abuse disorder did cross my mind when I read the original post but wanted to wait until you brought it up. Is this the cause of the abuse, the house falling down, the unemployment, the family/friend aversion? When he is sober (and not hungover) does he still display the same behavior (maybe to a lesser extent)?
I got a good idea that he'd blow up and refuse, but has anyone suggested that he have an assessment?
He had periods of his life where he drank a lot, but when I was born, my mother must have said something within the first few months of me being alive to him to make him stop. Which doesn’t sound like him, because he doesn’t listen to anybody. He’ll listen to a stranger’s advice off the street, and take as absolute truth, but when someone says something to him in his family, “Don’t tell me what to do!” blah blah blah. He didn’t drink for years, and started drinking again probably 10 years ago. He drinks once or twice a week, and no one wants to be around him at all when he’s drinking. The narcissist kicks into full gear. Some of the family members on his side are almost exactly the same. Some have had kids, and haven’t spoken to them in 30+ years, because they act so similar.. The unemployment for years has been a big part of the problem in the house, but we pretty much know he’ll never work again. He won’t take direction from anyone, and won’t stop telling people how to do their jobs or he won’t take any sort of order from his boss, so he’ll just quit and tell them to fuck off. He’s his own boss, end of story. And no assessment, I doubt he’d ever go for that. I doubt this is the root cause, he’s just wants to live in misery, and wants everyone around him in misery as well. That seems to be my assessment, his side of the family is negative as hell and looooovvvveesss drama.
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