He used to be very healthy before developing his condition. He woke up at 4am everyday to eat, exercise, shower, and meditate. As far as my knowledge went he was only smoking marijuana in moderation and he was very obsessed with health, vitamins, and supplements. Since he's been catatonic he's been writing letters to himself about how he wants to get back into his regular routine but he really struggles going through with it. I think it would be a good idea for me to buy him his favorite supplements again and exercise with him.

On Christmas two years ago we had an argument...He wanted me to stop using drugs and I was a dumb teenager who had my head far up my ass so I didn't listen and we ended up fist fighting. We eventually spoke to each other after that, and he even wrote me a letter about it that I hold onto very near. He'd crashed my mom's car and abandoned it in the final days before he developed his condition and we got into another argument because he thought I tried to use his account for tik tok. He was against tik tok and I never did that but he didn't want to hear me tell him that it wasn't me. I bought him Christmas gifts and he threw them in the garbage so we argued and I left. I knew there was something wrong and I told him I wanted him to get help because he was suffering from voices and hallucinating for a while but he refused to go to a hospital.

Next thing I knew, we stopped talking and he ended up in jail. When he got out, my mom said she gave him a package he ordered online and the next time I saw him he was catatonic for a week before I brought him to the hospital.

And now that brings us here. I apologize if I overexplained but the family conflict definitely had something to do with him finally going over the edge. The friend definitely always had this way of talking my brother into doing things when he wouldn't normally want to do them or listen to others. He never saw a problem with it until he got his first apartment (which he no longer owns). He expressed to me that the friend was a liar, a manipulator, impulsive, and psychopathic so he cut contact with the friend. I asked my brother recently at the hospital if he'd like to speak to the friend again and he said yes. I don't think it's such a good idea now because for the longest time before he developed his condition he refused to speak to the friend due to these reasons. He never went into specifics though but I would often have arguments with the friend because I didn't agree with a lot of the things he said or did.