“My Brother is Delusional and Believes in Conspiracy Theories”

brandon has been totally obsessed with conspiracy theories he has had a total break from reality brandon talks about an elite group of people and they are controlling the united states the queen of england is controlling the elite brandon believes people can lose their soul and someone else can take their place they can kind of swap like their kid could be uncle jimmy or whatever he thought his sister had killed me and that the person living in my house was an evil spirit he went on to say that his siblings were walking zombies or spirits our souls had all been taken to florida late december i texted brandon and he didn't think i was myself i sent brandon photos of myself trying to convince him i just didn't feel like it was my sister the picture looked photoshopped brandon insisted that i hold something with a time and date to my face and send a picture somebody could alter their voice with technology anything's possible i'm afraid brandon may hurt himself or someone else if he doesn't believe they are who they say they are he's become delusional to the point where it's scaring me brandon tells me he hates me most of the time brandon thinks that mom is trying to sabotage him and that she wants to destroy his life we had a great relationship and i truly believe that everything went wrong when he started drinking about 16 years ago brandon's marriage started falling apart brandon began drinking heavily to numb his pain he needed someone to watch the kids mom was working full time and every time she did come over they would get into an argument and he was so angry with her that she avoided him since then brandon blames me for everything he totally slips out and he starts screaming at me at the top of his lungs and he calls me stupid [ __ ] dumbass the only time he is capable of being nice to me is if he needs money in the past year i have given him 25 000 even though i give brandon money when he needs it he's still is very hateful and cruel i learned if i dare didn't step on his toes i would not get that tongue lashing i feel like i'm in an abusive relationship it's just my son you know not a husband there was a time for most of his life that he was very functional very successful high functioning fit right in with the flow of life correct absolutely yes okay anything ever atypical unusual bizarre when he was growing up no he was a delightful good kid he was one of my greatest heroes so this was a late onset now let me ask you guys this because there are multiple possibilities here number one is this is just a pure manipulation a game he's playing to escape accountability just make everybody think i'm insane and then they won't hold me accountable or expect me to do anything that's one possibility right now another possibility is that he has some type of mental illness another possibility is that he has some kind of brain disorder that it could be some type of tumor it could be some type of disruption of his neurotransmitters in his brain there could be something neurological going on here what do you guys think is most likely here i don't believe it's at all manipulation i don't think he's a manipulative person but then i have been told that i'm wrong you know and sometimes mom sees things through you know sunshine glasses um but sometimes that he will call you and seem lucid correct and he can be nice oh my gosh yes yeah and he can turn on a dime he absolutely he will just be talking and something i say he doesn't like and it'll be bang you know all of a sudden i'm this horrid witch again and he hates my guts stephanie and i walk on eggshells around brandon if i question or disagree with brandon he gets really angry we try to keep from upsetting him so that he won't blow his board because he will quit speaking to me for who knows how long i just hate to upset the apple cart i think my mother thinks that i've gotten something mentally wrong she's really worried that my liver is failing and that's causing me to think this way but i'm clearer than i've ever been i don't necessarily believe that there's people working against me you just have some rough stuff that goes on and it makes you question things i do not believe that they can take a soul out of a body but i do believe that people can believe in reincarnation when i try to explain things to my mother i think she misinterprets it it's mainly because we don't have a tight enough relationship where we can discuss how we think these things that i say are not crazy they make sense somebody told my mother and sister that i thought that my sister killed my mother and this is the first i've heard of that and that's just crazy one that somebody would say that and two that they would believe that i said that because you know you have to really think pretty poor somebody to think that they would say that about their family that tends to make me feel more like maybe somebody is trying to make me look crazy it's just so hurtful they they say you feel like that your phone has been bugged i have felt that way okay who would bug your phone i i don't know and you you said that you believe that the elite uh in the world are controlled by um the queen of england well not i just think there's a lot of things that we don't all know that some maybe powerful people do control but that's not what you said you said that the elite were controlled by the queen of england correct correct you say that you believe the cia is controlled by england could be i i'm not i don't know for sure i i the worst thing is is i'm out here trying to figure out this world and and so i question things and you think that you could discuss some of these things with somebody as close as your mother and your sister for whatever reason we don't have that type of relationship you know because we could talk a lot of this stuff out but if some of your thinking could be self-destructive or not in your best interest and they care about you well how are you going to stop the way i think by challenging your thinking we all have to challenge our things exactly and i'm fine with that you said you know your mother has five dogs and you felt like that those dogs uh possessed the souls of five people i think she misunderstood you know did she say did he say that to you rosanna i have questioned that yes he did yes and i have questioned that okay then why why are you doing my only that's my not the only things that i think you know that's why i didn't say it was the only thing you said right i said it's one of the things that you've said to your mother do you think she's a witch no i don't think she's a witch i she's my mother i love her you know i think that the dogs have taken away any relationship with myself and my kids do you think i know what i'm doing i wouldn't be here if you didn't well now that you're here you've changed your mind up close and personal you might think well now that i look at this some [ __ ] he's not quite as sharp as i thought he was i i expected nothing less all right here's the thing i don't want you to get here and blow this opportunity right because you get in your own way and i think you know that at times you think bizarre i don't want you to come here and try to put a face on this and downplay this instead of saying look i have some confused thinking i need help sorting this out unless you and i just man up and shoulder to shoulder figure out what the hell's going on here yeah okay we're going to take a break think about what i'm saying brandon says he doesn't believe his family is his family sometimes i want to know what he means by that when we come back we're going to talk about this brandon is on the internet pretty much 24 7 researching the deep state i think the queen of england is controlling the elite with blackmail like the pope had a black eye there's a picture of justice roberts with the black eye if they refuse to do something you get popped and that's a warning well that was brandon explaining how the queen of england controls the elite and if they don't follow her orders you say you think covet is a scam i i i do but i don't think it's as as big as it's been made out to be you had told producers that there were hundreds of cars that have followed you at times now this is a picture look like that well that's hundreds of cars right right over time over a length of that's not what you said in fact you said at one point you went to get a stake and hundreds of cars with texas license plates pulled up and we're watching you well i don't remember saying that you did like that that's not the way i remember it now let's listen to this this was following you it seemed like texas place and people that had tinted windows it stuck out no 100 cars hundreds because they were taunting me the more i talk about it the more crazy i think it is but it was so real and i went to texas roadhouse and i ordered a steak and they said your food will be right out and i waited like 15 minutes and all these cars started coming around and it was like texas place they were like surrounding me so i just got the hell out of there and never did get my steak what about the covid what do you mean when you say the numbers don't make sense with the government paying 30 000 to get you on a ventilator they have all the incentive in the world to hook you up to that machine and i think i think it's just a scam that's being ran on us for several different reasons what are the reasons money okay now i wrote down just some of the things that that you've had to say um and these are quotes your your mom is a witch because she owns all these dogs your family's not your family your sibling souls are in florida they are out to get him all your thinking seems to be that you're being targeted that you're being persecuted who is they i'm not sure who are who are they uh you know i've just had a lot of bad things that's happened throughout my life and so it's made me question a lot of things and uh you know a lot of it's been good being uh somebody that questions things you know it's it's kind of kept me in in safe space don't want to be naive i don't want to be naive because no because you go you you'll get taken advantage of that's in one end of the continuum right then the other end of the continuum is seeing a snake under every rock exactly now brandon says he saw a picture of chief justice john roberts with a black eye and thinks that's part of a conspiracy theory the actual photo taken by the associated press um has no black eye but are you saying that there's not one out there oh there it is i'm sure on the internet that looks like the one on the left there's probably photos of me out there that have hair but that doesn't mean i have it well i haven't seen those yet i haven't seen those yet maybe i'm not looking hard enough yeah but if it's on the internet that doesn't make it real brandon thinks that dogs are like body swapping with people an elite group of people take people's souls and they put them in dogs and then when their relatives die they take the soul from the dog and put it into the person he told me that's why he was afraid of me he thought that my five dogs were carrying people's souls [Music] now rosanna says that because of brandon she faces losing her home and even worse saying goodbye to her beloved pets i have five dogs and three of them they are 13 15 and a half and 16 and a half i got a home equity loan and i had it all planned out that my money would last until the dogs died and i could go to a condo but because brandon needed money and he's so important to me i have given him half of the lung and now i need to move this summer i can't take five dogs to a condo so now i have to reconsider putting my dogs down because at 15 and a half 16 and a half rehoming would just be way too hard on them it just wouldn't work so i have to sacrifice my dogs in order to help my son but the guilt just kills me what's your reaction to that i i think that's lew chris she'll get paid back as humanly possible fast as i possibly can and you know if she doesn't believe that then she doesn't know who i am and and that that's hurts me it's hurtful because you know it's almost like everything i've done meant nothing because uh if your mother and sister doesn't have faith in you then how the hell is anybody else going to well how about the reality that she's facing you're talking about it from your point of view how about her well i've borrowed about she's facing having to move and euthanize her dogs that's not the reason she says her dogs are dying and she needs to get she she's on social security she gets a thousand dollars a month barely pays property taxes and and her to eat why take money from her well how am i gonna get back to where i need to be without a little support i thought that she wanted to help me for her to blame me and to act like like that i'm like hurting her her might she might have to have her dogs put down and that's my fault that that's crazy because she's the one that has disengaged with the world and she has no relationship with my kids that's what hurts me more than anything on the rest of it she doesn't know my kids she's not tried to know my kids and they need not just me i'm not good enough for the boat that we need they need more and and there's not they're not there they're not there and they've never been there and they don't know who i am they don't know anything about my business they don't know anything about how my business works or how you know they don't have any idea how tremendously hard it is to get back in when you've basically just fought for your life for 10 years trying to just stay alive another day or another week this is not easy they're scared of me because they don't know me they're scared of me because they don't know who i am do you have any more questions yes i know you do yeah and a major observation i believe what people do here is a mirror to their lives out there and i just allowed brandon to do this monologue here because i think it spoke volumes about where we are and why we're there brennan had it all he had beautiful children and a successful business then in his 30s things just fell apart brandon can't make sense of why he's struggling right now i think he's resorting to thinking that people are out to get him to try to understand what's happening brandon is feeling very paranoid rosanna and stephanie say for the last several weeks they've been watching uh their son and brother seemingly slip away from reality and the question is why brandon spoke passionately after i asked him some questions there was a test in there i was very interested to see whether or not you had any empathy or compassion for your mother and her situation and circumstance and you showed absolutely none zip zero not in yet absolutely none i talked about the fact that she was on fixed income that she was very concerned about her dogs that she was going to be making a move and you know i asked you how you felt about that you talked about yourself and your own situation and i said okay however she is thus and so you responded by talking about yourself and your own situation which tells me that you're very egocentonic at this point and it's real hard to give away what you don't have i don't think you're an uncaring person uh i think if you were walking down the street and somebody was picking on either one of these two ladies and you came along i think they'd have a fight on their hands because i think you'd jump in there and protect your mother or your sister of course to the death yet you're not empathetic at all with the fact that you have taken advantage or put your mother in a bad situation or i've been the cause of her to be in this situation see that's interesting your question is about you okay your question again is about you so i i i i your question is not gosh i i wonder how my mother feels i am i'm sorry that she's feeling uh insecure or that she's facing a difficult challenge right now or that she feels as though she's in a tough spot you still don't look at this from anybody's point of view but your own let me tell you what i think's going on here i think you're hanging on for dear life reality-wise and i think you're putting on as good a social mass to all of this as you possibly can which is not being phony i think it's just you're doing the best you can all right with where you are but i think if we unscrewed the top of your head and looked inside it'd scare the hell out of us i know it would i think there's a lot of confusion in there and i think i know why and i think i know what needs to be done about it his family claims he's lost touch with reality you said that the elite were in control by the queen of england correct brandon thinks people take people's souls and they put them in dogs i think she misunderstood they're scared of me because they don't know me new dr phil check your local listings

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Length: 21min 58sec (1318 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 01 2021