He’s been on meds for nearly 6 years and they’ve always been slightly effective but now, it’s like him taking sugar pills. And even when he was on meds, it was never very effective. In the last 2 months, he’s been in impatient hospital on 2 separate occasions and any attempt to adjust meds has ended in failure. He always just flat out leaves the house without telling anyone and randomly goes to downtown Chicago to look for girls alone all because he had success once with some probably drag queen on a Metra train. It doesn’t work. At one point, we had to put out a missing persons report because he lost his phone and was cross faded on nicotine, weed, and liquor at a 3 day concert. I found him at day 3 of the concert with a 1/100000 chance. He was high and drunk. He was also randomly screaming in peoples faces for no reason and lost his shirt. And any attempt to try to reason with him and explain how he’s ultimately screwing us over by leaving the house at super late hours and making bad decisions, he simply ignores it. It’s like talking to a wall. Any information helpful to him gets ignored. I just don’t understand why his ability to see how selfish and horrible he’s acting to me and my family doesn’t work. He’s crazy obsessed with girls where he randomly goes on quick add on Snapchat and uses cringy and cheesy pickup lines to try and get girls. Literally, none have worked at all and he is wondering why it’s not working and refuses to change his ways of going for girls. He will do anything to get girls even if it means putting my parents through hell to look for him. And many people with bipolar here have claimed meds saved their lives and fixed their problems. Well, for my brother, that just isn’t the case. Sorry. He’s 21 and used to work a full time job as a cart attendant at a grocery store. He stopped a month ago on medical leave for obvious reasons and is supposed to start August 1st. I don’t know how that’s going to happen. What do we do? My parents have lost all hope in life. They’re great people who instilled morality and love into raising us. They deserve a lot better. The guy has hijacked their lives. I’m in college so during the school year, I get to escape it but I worry for my parents. They got screwed over. My mom is one of the greatest people you’ll ever meet and a month ago, my brother told her that he didn’t love her. Like, how horrible. Clearly 2 times at impatient hospital hasn’t done squat. What are the options for this guy? We can’t live like this