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My name is Christopher and I've been diagnosed BPII. I have family history involving mental illness, but I'm not writing about me. I'm writing asking for advice about my brother. My brother is in the military and has been for about two years. He started developing some pretty severe symptoms of BP, that make him a danger to himself and his other soldiers. He tells me that they have taken away his rifle and his keys to vehicles. He has gone to army docs and even visited an off-base doctor or psychiatrist for this. He tells me that the doctors and psychiatrist have put in orders for him to have a medical discharge, but it hasn't happened. That latest information in this year long saga is that his CO had a meeting with him and an army attorney. During the meeting the CO threatened my brother with incarceration for malingering should he pursue this course of action any further. He told my brother he would have one more meeting with the base psychiatrist, and that he would clear him of any and all diagnoses of disease, and the CO assured my brother that he had insured the base psychiatrist would do this. The attorney told my brother that the CO could and would do all this and that he should follow the orders.
I know my brother, and something is wrong with him. He needs to get help, and I think he truly is bipolar. I think he's being railroaded by a military system or individual that is looking to retain warm bodies. I want to try and help, but I don't know what I can do. I was hoping someone had some advice in this matter. He's in Fort Campbell, KY, and I can't physically be there to help.
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