I am 16 and my brother is 22. We already go to family counselling.
He thinks that an international terrorist organization is contacting me and threatening me, because on my phone I have my girlfriend listed as “ISIS”. Don’t ask, it’s a really weird inside joke we have.
We were joking around and roleplaying as secret agents or something, when my brother came in and saw my phone. I quickly exited the text messaging app, because I didn’t want him to see my cringey texts. But he still saw “enough to know that I was screwing around with dangerous individuals” and that they were “threatening us and our country”. I told him that they were prank messages, but he didn’t believe me. When I left my phone at home one time, he secretly looked through my texts. I guess me and my girlfriend roleplay really convincingly, because that only gave him more “evidence” that I was lying. He confronted me about it, asking things like “why do you lie?” and “why don’t you trust me?”
He has told my parents, and obviously they believe me. He says that my parents aren’t doing enough to protect me, and he’s the only one who is going to keep me safe. When I make the mistake of having resting bitch face, he asks me if I’m upset and need help. When I say no, he accuses me of lying and asks me why I lie to him. When I don’t give the answer he wants, he says “that’s not true, I know you are lying because you don’t want me to know about ISIS.“
I don’t know what I feel anymore, because I’m always lying about my emotions. I don’t remember lying, but I don’t know. I probably need his help with SOME things, but it is annoying to ask, because he keeps on bringing up ISIS. I think I know that I’m not lying. I misremember words I said, and words he says. I don’t know what to believe anymore. This is why I don’t show my emotions, because people think that my thoughts and feelings are pathological, and lies. Sharing what I think or feel always results in an argument.
Also please don’t judge me for the cringe things I do with my girlfriend. I can’t handle any more mean words. I know that I sound pathetic or stupid or whiny or whatever. No need to rub it in. This is serious, not a joke.
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