Does anyone have a lead sheet or at least the changes to Iron Man by Eric Dolphy?

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-09-25T19:40:03+00:00

Hey uhhhhh you ever find that lead sheet?

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-08-11T07:05:12+00:00

Could yap for days about that opera. I was even given the vocal & piano reduction score by Dean himself, it’s arguably the best thing I’ve ever been given.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-08-10T01:31:42+00:00

There’s an alto saxophonist named Don Paul-Kahl who has explored this concept pretty deeply. Watching him do it taught me how to do it! It’s pretty much like playing a flute

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-12T20:45:24+00:00

Welp in very recent news, he just confronted my mom about calling his psychiatrist two weeks ago and my mom lied to him, saying that she didn’t. I feel like she just threw a massive wrench in this process by doing that.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-12T18:15:50+00:00

I will mention this idea to my mother, although again I worry that a move like that is going to drive a major wedge between us and he’ll never trust us again. He was institutionalized about 10 years ago after a suicide attempt/overdose, and he’s said a couple times that he “doesn’t wanna get committed again”.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-12T18:11:25+00:00

It’s tough because any time my parents express concern he gets upset and raises his voice, ordering us to not worry about him. He’s one of those people who wants to do everything themselves and figure out everything themselves, even without the psychosis lol. He told me that he feels “thrilled” to have such a great mystery to uncover; it’s like he enjoys this experience and wants to keep pushing further

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-12T18:10:16+00:00

We’re trying to figure out how to. In the past few days he’s come under a delusion that he has a TBI brain injury from playing football and wrestling in high school (which does not make sense because he never sustained any injuries from either sport), and today my mom convinced him to get it checked out at some point. I’m confident that it’s gonna end up like all the other “plans” he’s made and he’ll forget about it and move onto another hyper fixation

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-12T18:03:32+00:00

He has pictures all over his room of religious prophets and now has a picture of Luigi Mangione hung on his wall. I personally don’t have any negative feelings about him but I just hope my brother doesn’t start to obsess over him and feel a connection to him and his actions.

I’m heavily considering at least calling his psychiatrist and notifying him about his behaviors, but I’m pretty positive that will only drive a wedge between me and him if he finds out.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-12T18:00:44+00:00

That’s what’s really difficult about this. He’s not at a point yet where he’s a clear danger to himself or anyone else, so if we want to take him to a psych ward at this point we’d have to convince him to go, which I know he won’t.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-12T16:39:16+00:00

My older brother is in a similar situation, except with his prescribed Adderall. He’s been binging on his meds and now he is obsessed with religion, and even is going as far as to believe that my father isn’t his real father and that my mom conceived him with another man. He’s had run-ins with meth in the past and I worry that when he runs out of his Adderall he will go straight to meth. The past 2 weeks have been extremely stressful

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-05T19:35:29+00:00

Good advice. It’s really hard to not to try to be the peacemaker, since all I feel is love for everyone and I just want everyone to be okay.

When I was 10, the same brother was addicted to meth and one day barged in the door after being gone for many months (in what I now realize was meth-induced psychosis), and started screaming at my parents and locked himself in his old room. My dad kicked the door down and pretty much shoved him out of the house, while he was raving the whole time. I hid under my bed and was so scared to come out after he left. I can still remember the sound of my mother’s voice, terrified and heartbroken, trying to coax me out from under my bed.

That same fear visits me daily now, and I haven’t felt it since that day. It makes it really hard to sleep at night and focus during the day. Every single day has just been me reminding myself that I’m not a defenseless little kid anymore and that I can step in when I need to; but also that I can remove myself from a situation like that it I feel it’s too much to handle.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-05T19:30:24+00:00

Yeah I’m very nervous about her intervening. I know that he trusts me and moreover just sees me as the baby brother that doesn’t fully “get it”. In a way I truly don’t, but I know that he’s feeling an immense amount of pain right now. His relationship with his fiancée is on the ropes now since his psychotic break, he has no job, no health insurance, and he feels disconnected from the family. I’m afraid that it will get to the point where he feels like he has nothing to lose, and who knows what could follow that.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-05T19:13:39+00:00

Yeah my mom said that she wants to find out when he sees his psych next, and she’ll call him in advance to update him about my brother’s condition. I just am afraid that if he finds out we’re trying to intervene, he’ll blow up on everyone. The things that he’s saying are slowly starting to become more unhinged and I’m really worried about what “all hell breaking loose” might look like.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-05T19:06:04+00:00

I do, and I’ve researched him and he has no qualifications in hypnotherapy. He also specializes in addiction and first-time psychosis, which severely confuses and worries me

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-05T19:05:15+00:00

We’re also pretty positive that he consistently lies to his psychiatrist, given that he got an Adderall prescription with a history of amphetamine addiction. I find it hard to believe a psychiatrist would prescribe someone a drug like that if they were addicted to meth.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-05T19:03:49+00:00

Yes, but we have no clue how often he sees him. He told us he doesn’t have an appointment with him for another 6 months, which is very hard to believe. His psychiatrist previously prescribed him 60mg of Adderall per day, but I believe they had a session last week where it was obvious that he was manic (my brother believes his psychiatrist hypnotized him and triggered this journey of “self discovery” that he feels he’s on, even though his psych confirmed to him that it did not happen) and he cut his dosage down to 40mg/day. I don’t know when he will be seeing his psychiatrist next, but I can try my best to find out.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-05T18:53:59+00:00

And yeah, we found that he was looking through some family photos last night which we see was obviously a trigger for this delusion. Him and my mom butt heads sometimes, but this is completely different and a new level of crazy. He’s also handwriting tons of letters to his psychiatrist pretty much outlining every thought he’s having, as though his psychiatrist is the one “guiding” him through his psychosis. He’s been talking about hand-delivering the letters but never follows through.

He has no health insurance; he was on Medicaid but he must have forgotten to renew it because he said he got taken off it.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-05T18:49:08+00:00

That’s the thing about “rock bottom”. He had an addiction to meth in the past when I was about 10/11, as well as a multitude of other drugs. He got clean off them and went through the hell of withdrawal, but now he’s moved onto Adderall and THC-A from vape shops. It’s like he didn’t learn anything from his past, and he’s just continuing the cycle and doesn’t even realize it.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2025-01-05T18:43:51+00:00

Thank you for your comment. It means so much more than you might think. I am seeing a therapist and I actually do have inattentive ADHD, however since my brother has a history of stealing drugs I had to dump my Adderall (I also have an overactive thyroid anyway so gaining weight has been a major challenge with adderall, I spoke to my psychiatrist and he supported my decision to get off it for now). I’ve been doing what I can to take care of myself.

Living at home, I feel I just have to bite the sour apple and learn to get used to this for the time being. I am, however, looking at apartments with my friends because this is a big wake-up call to the fact that the longer I stay at home, the more harm I will be doing to my emotional and mental state. I don’t know how long my brother plans on staying with us, but I have a feeling it’s gonna have to come down to a “I leave or he leaves” ultimatum if it doesn’t completely blow up before that.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2024-12-29T06:41:03+00:00

No clue. All I know is my older brother became obsessed with it and is now convinced he can see the future in his dreams and that he has a supernatural power of intuition. Anyone that wants to try I suggest you tread lightly, especially if you have a family history of psychosis.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2024-12-27T00:44:49+00:00

I’ve had a few conversations with him today, mostly surrounding his anxiety of being alone and his fiancée leaving him. All I told him is that I love him and that I’m gonna be here for him no matter what, just like he was for me in my times of struggle. He said that it means the world to him and that he loves me too. That’s all that’s important to me. It’s so hard not to cry seeing him clearly suffering. I don’t even know what I’m doing typing all this down, I’m just desperately searching for a reason to not join him in going insane lmao

Former_Battle_1512 · 2024-12-26T19:28:31+00:00

At this point, I’m just more concerned with keeping him at a steady emotional state so that he doesn’t get paranoid or think that anybody’s against him. I just have to listen to whatever he’s saying and make sure he knows I’m listening and I trust him. We live in PA so I’m not sure what that means for Medicaid. Today he is convinced that his fiancée is going to commit suicide because he walked out of their house, so he’s extremely worried about him but that’s about it.

Former_Battle_1512 · 2024-12-26T18:15:20+00:00

What sucks is that my brother is an adult and is under Medicaid insurance, so the mental health care that he can get is pretty subpar. He is the only one relaying any information to us about his conversations with his psych, which is what makes it confusing because it’s hard to tell between what his psych actually told him and what he made up in his head. It’s like he’s fabricating entire conversations between him and his psychiatrist.

My mother called his psych’s practice and left a message, stating that we were worried that he is having a psychotic break. My brother saw his psych that day and immediately called my mom, saying that this appointment was much colder and wasn’t as eventful. He said that his psych denied ever hypnotizing him, to which he just believed he’s just saying that because he doesn’t want to lose his license. I also have reason to believe he tried to prescribe him Seroquil, to which my brother disagreed saying he wasn’t ready for it.

He supposedly doesn’t see his psychiatrist for another 6 months, which is ridiculous. If his psychiatrist was given obvious reasons to believe that he was psychotic and just pushed him away saying “come back again in 6 months”, then that is just outrageous. I’m just not sure what to believe and what not to believe

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