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Originally Posted by Rose76
Your brother has character flaws as well. Everyone does. It's called being human.
I have one sibling I can turn to, if I'm down. She'll listen. But there's two who won't. One will say, "Just use your coping skills." and end the conversation. So I just know to never call her. One day, she called me. I had just been through a bad experience and was upset. She said, "I don't know why you dwell on things." At that moment, it was clear to me that she was being a jerk.
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Thank you for your comments. I don't think my brother has character flaws and is "being human." I think he is an inhuman malignant sociopathic narcissist who causes criminal level damage and wrecks havoc on people's lives. I try to keep him at bay but somehow he always manages to slither back into my life. Social media is made for narcissists. My brother has created a highly visible profile and uses it to infiltrate the lives of many he previously did not have access to.
What kind of person would tell another person to kill themselves???? That is a terrible thing to say and even if I know he is nuts it is like someone stuck a knife into my heart.
I believe the whole self-discloser thing is wrong wrong wrong. I am sick of reading on the internet that one should tell friends and family blah, blah, blah.
I think instead the advice should be to tell a trusted mental healthcare professional but to be very wary of disclosing such things to anyone else. I am not saying keep it a secret for the sake of keeping a secret. But when one is vulnerable one should be extremely extremely careful to keep personal boundaries strong.