Hung out with a guy who had a brother who ruined his own life.
He probably wasn't the brightest guy but was pretty extroverted and people liked him. After he finished high school, he didn't really do anything besides hang out and work random dead end jobs for a few years.
He then went on a backpacking journey for a few months. When he came back he had a psychotic breakdown and ended up in the mental hospital for a while. In there he would take on a life long cigarette habit even though he was against smoking in his younger years. No one knew what really triggered this but there was a thought he was hanging out with hippy types where he might of been doing drugs with or they might of spiked him with something.
When he got out, he didn't really do much and would flirt with not taking his meds because he thought he felt fine without them. For a while he had some steady employment and things seemed ok. He then ended up moving across the country to live with some friends who had bought a house. This part of the country was pretty isolated, cold and winters with not much sunlight. Probably not the best place for one's mental state. While there, he was either unemployed or working shitty manual labor jobs and drinking and chain-smoking and around this time he got diagnosed with depression along with his bipolar and psychosis.
He eventually moved back to his hometown and seem to be doing ok for a while. He moved to the nearby city and had a job and place and seem to be doing good. He got a new girlfriend which seemed good at first, but she was a headcase with depression and was mean to him. But he was a sucker for pussy and would stay with her. They eventually moved back to their hometown as I think her mother owned a place that they could live in. During this time, he was in and out of work or on unemployment and she didn't want to work because she was a lazy cunt and "mah depression". They also decided to adopted two large dogs to go with their two cats that they couldn't care for properly. You go to their tiny 1br place and it smelt like cigarettes, booze, dog feed and there was dog hair on everything. All they ever did was sit around the house drinking, smoking and arguing.
He then got his girlfriend pregnant. This was good for two people with mental issues who didn't want to work. He would talk about his grand plans to get proper employment but they never really panned out. When he did get a proper work, his girlfriend would sabotage it by doing things like turning his alarm clock off because she didn't want to get woken up and he'd be late to work. They eventually had a the kid but were not ready for the responsibility. I think they tried staying together for a bit but the toxic relationship fell apart. I think around this time he scizod out again and nearly committed suicide.
He then reappeared again and because a social media weirdo where he'd record and post everything online. At the time he was living in a run down garage in someone's yard and sleeping on a mattress. His videos were just him spiritual sperging or hanging out with lowlifes and junkies in his garage where they're doing drugs, drinking and chain smoking. His child now lived with the mother who was still a headcase. Sometimes he'd have is kid in his videos staying in his squalor garage. He would boast how he lets his kid do what he wants with no rules while filming his kid walking over broken glass or picking up knife. By this stage he was basically an alcoholic, chain smoker degenerate who was also partaking in meth.
He then decided to pack everything up and go on another journey and thought he document it. It involved him going from town to town talking to random weirdos and having banal spiritual talks with them. Or it would be him going getting drunk at bars and talking to college aged people than him who thought he was a funny, extroverted, spiritual guy. However, as the journey went on, it seemed he squandered whatever money he had on retarded shit and was bordering on being homeless and his videos became more and more psychosis babble. I think he may of caused a public scene somewhere and got hauled to the nuthouse again. I think he ended up eventually back in his home town living off disability and living in squalor making psychobabble videos and repeating the same mistakes over and over. Last I heard he had another episode and chased after a police car or an ambulance through traffic and got arrested and thrown back in the psyche ward.
While it's sad that his mental health illness screwed him over, he was also a guy who never took responsibility for himself. Never applied himself to anything. Never saw anything out long term and settled for short time pleasures. He never took care of his physical and mental health over the years and would constantly go backwards. He instead looks at the world in a pseudo spiritual fourteen year old deadhead lens. "Hey guys imagine if like, the government just gave us all free money, beer and weed forever and we didn't have to work." The worst bit is he has a kid that he basically isn't going to raise and left that in the hands of a crazy woman who will wreck that kid's life. It's also crazy how much this guy aged in a short amount of time. He now looks ten years older than he actually is.
distorting everything. So you go and sit on the couch with the "cool kids" who are too cool to be seen dancing only to realize they are a bunch of boring shits just pretending to be cool (aesthetics, etc). Frankly the only ones having anything close to fun in those parties are the ones drinking/getting high like your buddy, problem is they always end up messed up and flunking out, like your buddy.
