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What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by MayorOfDelta(m): 12:04pm On Jul 26, 2022
Good day house, please I need a way to go about this!!

For the past four days now, my cousin bro has been acting strangely and unusual.

He just developed a behavioural change and his ways..
He has developed the following:

1.Psychomotive agitation(pacing around aimlessly, doing things without purpose like turning the socket switch off and on, turning on and off torchlights.)

2.Strange curiosity(he asks me of things which are not there or talking about an invisible person in the room with us.)

3.Unusual activities ( though he prays a lot but this time, he started praying in tongues which i have never seen him doing.)

4.Not sleeping properly (since Saturday night, I have not had a proper sleep because of him, he keeps waking me up all time, if I ask him why, he would say "nothing but just stand and stop sleeping".) He does not sleep also.

5.Vague questions (Questions like " are you hearing that?" Or "who took what I kept here?" When asked what he did kept, he won't answer)

6.Always stalking me and preventing me from staying long with my phone. I just called my friend now, he(my cousin) was agitating that I should end the call.

7. He is always going to the rest room.

The one that shock me was, yesterday he told me to call my friends, I asked him why? He said I should call them. I was more curious, I asked him " is there any thing you want to tell them?". Immediately he started shouting and was commanding me to call them. I dialed one of my female friend line, she picked the call, I offered my cousin the phone to speak to her as I thought he had something to tell them. Immediately my cousin refused and told me to tell them "hi".

I almost burst out of laughter but I play along, even my friend was like " is there anything I am trying to say to her because I don't normally call her to say hi"..

I was perplexed. I think this has to be a depression thing. I suggested to him that we should go to hospital, he said no that I should call his church member..

I told him, this is not a church thing and explained everything to him, he was like "nothing is wrong with me ooo".

How should I go about this? I am thinking of getting him a anti depressant drug or I should just take him to a chemist or doctor.

Seun
Lalasticlala
Mynd44

Please what should I do? Fast please, it is really getting out of hand.

NB: HE IS 24 OR 25.

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Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by endsarrrs(f): 12:10pm On Jul 26, 2022
Drugs is taking a whole of our youth this days
Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by RedChiefPriest: 12:14pm On Jul 26, 2022
You sure say na depression or your cousin don dey see people from other realm?
Just talk to him very well maybe he is seeing stuffs other people can't see, but that's not depression.
If he don dey see things make he enter nollywood drop 2 movies,call the first one "The voices in my head" the second one "Na only me dey see them" e go cash out,na the same thing dem do for "Stranger things".

Dj! 3 plate of palmwine and 1 keg of peppersoup
Barman! Play me "The Invisible people" by Harry Potter and Timi Dakolo

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Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by MayorOfDelta(m): 12:14pm On Jul 26, 2022
endsarrrs:
Drugs is taking a whole of our youth this days

He does not do drugs, neither does he smoke nor take alcohol.
Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by Jamesbiodun(m): 12:17pm On Jul 26, 2022
Your cousin bro is getting mad, he need rehabilitation angry
Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by endsarrrs(f): 12:19pm On Jul 26, 2022
MayorOfDelta:

He does not do drugs, neither does he smoke nor take alcohol.
PTSD?
Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by MayorOfDelta(m): 12:21pm On Jul 26, 2022
endsarrrs:


PTSD?

I don't think so.
Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by MayorOfDelta(m): 12:22pm On Jul 26, 2022
Jamesbiodun:
Your cousin bro is getting mad, he need rehabilitation angry

That is what is going through my mind

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Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by alhaji04: 12:44pm On Jul 26, 2022
Depression can also bring stuffs like dat.. is he an introvert? does he have friends? what kind of friends does he keep? well i'll suggest u observe him very well and try talk to him.. lets hope it is not spiritual.

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Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by MayorOfDelta(m): 1:55pm On Jul 26, 2022
alhaji04:
Depression can also bring stuffs like dat.. is he an introvert? does he have friends? what kind of friends does he keep? well i'll suggest u observe him very well and try talk to him.. lets hope it is not spiritual.

He is an introvert
He has few friends
I can't say what most of them are but from the handy ones I have seen, they are not bad at all.
Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by Manduedu: 5:38pm On Jul 26, 2022
Get Miira care + for your cousin and thank me later...
Re: What Should I Do? My Cousin Bro Is Depressed!! by Hibat2020(f): 6:02pm On Jul 26, 2022
Try to investigate the things he was into before now. Take him out to a places or involve in activities that will make him relax and see if you can get him into meaningful conversation. Shock can also make someone emotional balance. Get him food supplements that can make him calm and relax.
After all these, there is no positive improvement, contact a specialist that deal with mental and emotional problems.

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