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I'm 14/f and my sister is 19/f. It's ironic how I'm more mature about things than she is. Everytime break starts and she come home, whether it's Thanks Giving, Winter, Spring, Summer break, it's always disastrous and I can never relax.
My sister complains and gets mad over the smallest things. Over Thanks Giving Break, which was about 2 weeks for her, she got braces and oh my goodness. It was horrible. She would barely eat, she would complain, mop around, lock herself in her room for getting stupid braces. She was like "I can't eat. It takes 30minutes just to floss" blah blah..for 2 weeks and MORE. I must say that a 10 year old wouldn't whine so much. That really got my mom pissed off because she was buying stuff for my sister and making all these soft foods just for her to make her feel better and my sister just turned away complaining. And when my mom is mad, I have to watch what i do around her. When she's mad, she's likely to go off at anyone at anytime so it's like I always have to help her during breaks, watch what I say and do and I can't go and hang out with friends as much because my mom won't be in the mood to drive me. Then there's the problem with my sister getting pissed off at every single thing that doesn't go her way. If she wanted this and someone said no, she'll get pissed off, lock herself in her room for days, and get everyone in the house pissed off. I mean if she wanted to get , let's say a coffee from starbucks, and my mom said no, she'll get pissed off. If she wanted to help me practice violin and I decline NICELY (because, personally, she is horrible at teaching and when I tru to tell her that she's going too fast or something, she'll get pissed and say "Well you should've practiced more blah blah") she gets pissed off and locks herself in her room. This is getting really old and I don't knwo what to do about it. I can't talk to my sister because I'll just make it worse and if I talk to my mom or dad, my dad won't do much about it, and my mom will either just get pissy about that or talk to my sister which will still mak things worse. Any suggestions on what I should do to get her not get pissed so easily?
She might be a brat. Or she might be suffering from depression or another mental illness.
Before I was put on anti-depressants, I behaved in much the same way (although perhaps not as blatantly aggressive). The littlest things would bother me and I would go and lock myself in my room because I felt like such utter crap. And then when I thought about it later, I of course felt even worse for over-reacting.
There's not a whole lot you can do. But instead of talking about that, you might try asking her how she's feeling sometime, or initiating a conversation about something you two have in common. That way you'll hopefully at least have some pleasant interaction.
Try to be forgiving of her. What she's doing isn't right, but if it IS the result of mental illness, it isn't something she can entirely control.
I hope things work out for you.
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It's not from depression. She's really pissy that she didn't get her way and that's that. She just gets mad at everyone
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