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Hey everyone. I need prayer for my brother. I should explain his situation a bit. He has aspergers syndrome among other mental issues, and is currently living in a group home to help build life skills. The reason I ask for prayer is that over the last several years, he has become increasingly depressed and emotionally empty. He is 28 years old, but mentally is around 14. He can't keep any sort of job and doesn't like being around people. He went into this group home with high hopes of getting some real life skills with the end goal of being able to live independently. He is 4 months into his 6 month stay at this group home, but he has completely checked out mentally. He is obviously depressed, though he wont admit it. He doesn't eat (He's lost 12lbs this week. The care takers are now actively making sure he eats enough). doesn't shave and sleeps all day. His biggest problem is that he has no hope for his future. He thinks his future is going to be what it is now. He has no friends to speak of, no job, no hobbies, he stays in his room all day listening to music, going on the internet, and reading his bible. That has been his daily life for the last 10 years or more. We try to get him out and doing things, but he has no drive. All his life people have told him that he is stupid, and that his interests were stupid. He used to love running! He would run and run, until some jerk told him that he ran weird, and since then he's stopped completely. He used to love drawing, until someone told him that he wasn't good at it. Because of his Aspergers, he basically lives in his own mind. He dwells on the insults that people have thrown at him, and its torn him down into an empty shell of hopelessness. He's told the family in the past that the only reason he hasn't killed himself is that he would never get to see God. His faith is all he has. We (the family) are at a loss. He has no desire to try new things, or go on outings with the family. He just exists, he isn't really living. Please pray that God would do something miraculous. I'm praying for something big here... My brother is a wonderful person with a kind soul. I love him to bits and he deserves to have an amazing life, but we don't know how to get him back.
