New diagnosis I don’t know what to do
For context my (22f) brother (26m) has been diagnosed with schizophrenia just this past week. He was in a ward for 10 hallucinating, having obsessive thoughts and other disorganized thinking. When he got out and my mom, my dad., and I are grossly underprepared. He got out yesterday and my dad doesn’t understand what schizophrenia is, and has been getting frustrated with him and angry, and that’s where my brother’s been staying at. My mom is agoraphobic and has her various mental disorders. I am just a girl trying to finish my degrees and I have no money.
He’s disoriented and is restless, he doesn’t have anywhere to go, we are all he has, and I’m afraid that we don’t have much for him. We are in unstable housing, I live in a shed and next to my my mom sleeps in a run down camper (we are in the backyard of a lovely lady who treats us like family) however I’m worried that if he gets loud and violent (which he has before) we might not have this place. My father also lives in a small camper as well, about a mile and a half away from us. Neither place is an ideal form of living but it’s all we have.
But I’m afraid our environment triggers him too. He came just now in the evening without shoes from my dad’s place. My head is racing so I’m sorry if my post if informated or grammatically incorrect.
My heads racing and I don’t know what to do. He hasn’t worked in over two years because of another episode of mania before this diagnosis and I have to essentially be the guiding hand for him and my whole family. He needs to get on disability but the appointment with the psychiatrist he was supposed to see today got canceled and moved up to April because my of my dad and brother stressing each other out and not going and now I’m just stuck. I feel so stuck. I’m in my last semester of college and I’m already struggling with balancing school and my living situation and now I am just overwhelmed and scared. I’m the youngest of the family but I’ve had to be the one to take him to hospitals and figure everything out and still be kind and consolingly to everyone else. No one in my family is helping me, I trying to understand what the best avenue is moving forward but I dont I’m scared. I feel so suffocated and alone. I know I’m not but my heart hurts and all my dreams of and moving out to better living now feels even more impossible.
I dont know if I want resources or just comfort but all I know is thank you to those who read the whole thing. I just want to be okay and forhim to be okay too
Posted Feb 26, 2026, 7:56 AM UTC