help with my brother
as-salamu alaikum, i’m posting because i genuinely don’t know how to help my younger brother anymore. about a year ago, he went through a really painful heartbreak, and ever since then he’s become extremely cold and emotionless. it’s honestly unsettling sometimes because he doesn’t react to things the way he used to at all. he doesn’t laugh. barely smiles. doesn’t talk about his feelings. keeps everything locked inside and carries himself like nothing reaches him anymore. not in an arrogant way, just like he completely shut that part of himself off. as his sister, it’s strange watching someone who used to feel so deeply become this unreadable. for anyone who’s seen a sibling become like this after heartbreak, what actually helps? does time fix someone becoming this emotionally detached, or do they just stay this way?