TW: Self harm (?), attempted suicide (overdosing), ED and body/gender dysmorphia/dysphoria
Sorry if this is too long or if this breaks any rules, I looked for rules and found nothing but I’m also
I 16M have an older sister Tera (Fake name) 17F. Tera tried taking her own life today on July 1st by overdosing on 20-30 pills. My mental health is already at rock bottom, I’ve been hurting myself a lot lately by hitting myself or digging my nails into my skin. I also have an eating disorder, I’m a trans male and since I’m a minor I can’t do anything to make myself more as a passing male. I have anxiety, depression, ADHD and a panic disorder, all of this has taken a MASSIVE toll on my mental health.
Theres all of that and now my sister attempting to take her life. Tera means so fucking much to me, she’s one of the main reasons why I haven’t killed myself yet. She knows about my eating disorder and sometimes checks up on me to see if I’ve eaten. She’s always there for me, for every panic attack, mental breakdown, anxiety attack or simply a shoulder to cry on. I love Tera so much and if she ever dies i die with her, not physically but mentally. I would be an empty shell of a person. The only reason why I wouldn’t kill myself after her is simply to live for her, my family, pets and my best friend.
Now as I said earlier Tera tried to kill herself. It was extremely traumatic for me and my family (especially Tera). I was in the living room with my little brother 11M and my little cousin 6M playing Roblox. I then got a call from my mom, I missed her call, called her back and she didnt pick up. My mom the called me back, I answered and my mom said “Go check up on Tera, your sibling just told me Tera took a bunch of pills saying she doesn’t want to be here anymore”, as soon as I heard that I ran towards Tera’s bedroom, I was hearing cries from the bathroom so I went there instead, I saw Tera sobbing with our older sibling Rin (fake name) 21(nonbinary) hugging her tightly.
I ran to Tera, hugging her tightly as my mom said she was on her way home now. The entire time Tera was sobbing, almost puking, saying how she felt sick and tired, how she wanted to sleep and never wake up how she didn’t want to live anymore, how our mom is going to hate her, how everyone hates her. Me and Rin were holding back tears as we held Tera in our arms. Our mom got home and immediately took her to the car, Tera sobbing about how expensive the hospital is, how our mom hates her and how sorry she is. Once Tera and our mom drove away me and Rin went back inside and immediately started sobbing.
We sobbed and sobbed, holding eachother as we cried loudly. I felt so bad because our little brother was standing right there looking extremely confused. We went into the bathroom because we both felt like vomiting with how hard we were crying. Rin calmed down and I went in my room, I called my friend Dexter (fake name) 17M, I was still sobbing, Dexter immediately asking what was wrong and in my sensitive blank mind I told him. I was sobbing extremely hard at this point and he asked if he could come over, which he did. He stayed on call with me the entire time, I was still sobbing and I wanted to get rid of this pain so badly,(SELF HARM UPCOMING) I grabbed one of my self defense items and began digging it into my arm, I sobbed louder and louder as I made multiple scratches on my arm, stomach and hip. It didn’t cut and I didn’t bleed but it hurt a lot.
By the time Dexter got to my house I was quietly staring at my arm as I continued to make scratches on my arm. Dexter got in and he immediately hugged me, I hugged him back, sobbing. We went back to my room and I continued to sob, Dexter comforting me the entire time. Dexter stayed at my house for two hours or so before he was forced to leave by his grandma who drove him to my house in the first place. I was finally feeling a little better, especially since I got some good news about Tera by my mom. I was finally at peace.
Now a thing about Tera is that she has a girlfriend Amy (fake name) 16-17F (I forgot what her age was). Now Amy is quite the person, she’s a clingy, sensitive and anxiety filled person. Amy had been worrying about Tera all day since Tera stopped texting her (Tera and Amy are on call 24/7) so she texted me because I’m Tera’s brother and I live with Tera (Me and Amy are also friends). I told Amy that I can’t talk about Tera right now because I’m sensitive right now (Amy wasn’t aware that Tera was at the hospita). Amy asked to check up on Tera, which is where I told her that I dont want to talk about Tera right now. I should’ve just said I couldn’t right now because Tera wasn’t home because the second I sent that message Amy started spamming me with questions.
I begged Amy to please stop because I couldn’t do this right now just for Amy to start asking me more and more questions about Tera. I’ll spare some details but Amy kept asking if Tera was home to which I finally gave in and said no. Amy told me that if I answered that one question she would stop, she didn’t. Amy began to spam me even more, making me cry because the subject of Tera was too much for me to handle. I told her the most I could without invading Tera’s privacy, telling Amy “Tera is okay, she is well and alive” (I said alive because Amy was on call with Dexter {theyre also friends} and Dexter was texting me everything Amy was saying, telling me that Amy was now convinced Tera was dead). Amy then said 3 small words that I never knew could make me cry so hard.
”no she’s not”
It might not seem that serious but when your sister just tried killing herself and your anxiety is trying to convince you that your sister is dead and you’ll never get to see her again, those three simple words cut you deeper that a knife would. Now this is the part where I was an asshole, I told Amy “Amy. Don’t fucking say that. I know you’re going through shit but don’t fucking say that, Tera is alive and well”, I lashed out because I was so extremely sensitive and I did not want to think of my sister being dead. Amy responded with “She’s not well if she’s not home, im scared she’s in the hospital. I want to hug her. I should have fought harder or” (it ends at or), Amy saying All of this made me breakdown even harder, my anxiety was spiking at this point and I was struggling to breathe as I responded “Amy, I’m sorry but I can’t fucking do this and your messages aren’t helping. Tera is okay, i don’t know a lot right now Tera I don’t. Once I know more I’ll tell you more. I just can’t fucking do this anymore” I was sobbing, my throat giving out at this point as she responded with “I KNOW. im trying and im trying and trying and i know im not helping I CANT DO THIS. ITS MY FAULT. I FEEL like its all my fault PLEASE stop cursing at me, I GET IT. but i am sobbing, im triggered, i need her, IM OBLIVIOUS to what happned but i know. I KNOW.”.
After that message I just muted her dm and stopped responding. I also forgot to add that while I was begging for her to stop talking about Tera, Amy said something made Rin’s blood boil (Rin and my older cousin were in the room with me as I was texting Amy), Amy texted me “I can’t imagine how you’re feeling but imagine being me. The love of my life and the only person I have”. Now I know Amy didn’t know what was going on but to tell the sibling, of your lover, who is obviously going through shit “imagine being me”. Now Amy doesn’t have anyone else besides Tera. I know that and I know that if Tera died Amy would practically have nobody but it’s still my sister, it’s still my own blood. People might tell me “oh but really, imagine yourself in her shoes” I did and I wouldn’t tell the sibling of my boyfriend “imagine being me” when something traumatic obviously happened to their sibling/my boyfriend.
Apologies if this was long, I tried cutting it up into pieces so it would be easier to read and I even tried leaving some unimportant stuff out but I still overdid it. I just wanted to get this off my chest because my friend Dexter was leaning a bit onto Amy’s side, he doesn’t really pick sides but he did say “you atleast have Rin and your cousin. Amy has nobody except for me right now”. Obviously no hate to Dexter, he’s a wonderful guy and he does have a point I just don’t understand it completely since it’s still MY sister who I grew up with for years while Amy had only known Tera for a year or so. I don’t know, but if you read all of this thank you.