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Originally Posted by Ultra Darkness
"I think you're bad for my mental health."
"I think you're just mean."
"Where do you get that idea?"
"You've been rude practically all morning!"
"..."
"On purpose."
"..."
"Don't have anything to say to that, do you?"
"Shut up."
"..."
"..."
"And now you're lapsing into sullen silence again!"
"If everything I say is going to be rude, I'm not saying anything at all."
This is, almost word for word, a real interaction between me and my brother this morning. At the end, he finally shut up and I spent almost half an hour focusing on my breathing.
HE DRIVES ME CRAZY!
He talks too much, he says things without thinking, and if he does think, then he's being deliberately hurtful! And he calls me a very uncaring person? He should look in a mirror!
He says I'm depressing to be around. That I'm have no imagination. He went and said that almost everyone in the house thinks I'm too sensitive!
I don't want anything to do with him. At all. But I can't make him leave me alone, we live in the same house...
I want to break something. I really do.
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If you can, just walk away. Whenever he's doing that. I know that's hard. you feel you need to respond but you don't have to. That's one of my problems, I know i'd be better off just walking away from people but i have a hard time doing so. In the rare instances I've been able to though it's always turned out better. Try to figure out responses that will politely shut him up. The thing is he's kind of a real life troll (yeah i know i use that word too much, deal with it :P) and he gets something from your reaction or he wouldn't do it at all. Resist the typical response and don't give him that. Thing is people usually sstop doing the things that they stop getting any fulfillment from. I know it's sad to say that your brother might get something from your angry reactions but it's probably true. I don't know how to help you find a way to do this but I bet it would work!