My 18 Year old Brother is in the Hospital because of his Crypto Addiction

I really can't talk about this anywhere else but I want to share an experience here.

Some Background: Me and my brother both live in "Algeria" (north africa) where Crypto currencies aren't allowed by law but We really didn't care about the gouverment implication on Crypto.

We have been both huge fans of crypto since early 2017 after hearing about it on a Teamspeak sever but at that time we were both young and we really couldn't afford to Buy some, we kept Collecting money and doing small chores to earn some money and as soon as we collected a respectable amount ($100-150$ each with our shitty currency cash) we would buy from People we met on facebook Crypto groups since we don't have International credit cards here and as I said we were young

We kept doing this for the past 2 and a half Years or so and we tried to always distrubute the money on several accounts because we really were afraid that one of our accounts get closed and we wouldn't be able to get Money back. We did this process for the past 2 years and we managed to finally reach the 0.9-0.1 BTC lately (a bit less than $2000)

I really just Hold crypto because I love it but I can't deny the Financial benefits that we can gain, My brother took this Side very seriously since he wanted to leave our country and Study abroad and Crypto was for him the best way to make money faster and to pay for his tuition abroad so each penny he made was put into His accounts and he deprived himself from anything else.

2 days Ago we woke up to the day we Feared the most and to find out that one account containing over $480 got closed, He really started crying and went full Psycho he locked himself into his room and didn't really want to talk to anyone. He later went out of his room with his hand full of scars and Just collapsed.

We had to take him to the hospital and He had to get a surgery, He is now awake but he Still needs to stay there for another day and hopefully will be fine even though I don't think things will be great for him. My parents Decided that my brother needs to get some therapy as soon as he leaves the Hospital but they really don't know the reasons. My brother won't talk about crypto with them and all he says is that this country is shit and that he can't bare living here anymore and that he wants to kill himself if he spends one more day here .

I'm Here not to blame anyone, I will never deny that He is responsible for what happened to him and that his Greed is his Issue and I totally Understand that some of you may blame us for Opening crypto accounts in Countries that ban it but It really sucks to be in his shoes and to get money off you in this Fashion.

We will make it no matter what !

ps: Sorry if there are too many English Mistakes.

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