The-pretty-duckling - Maddy 24

by Galina Usenko

People often fail to mention sibling abuse - never discredit it. Don’t let others discredit it with phrases like “all sisters fight”, “my brother was the same” or “it happens at your age”. All abuse is awful, damaging and unacceptable, no matter who the abuser is.

You change his mind. You said he spends most of his time indoors, right? Well, start with something small, then once you’ve got him out and about again, you think of every fabulous thing you could do for him, everything that might make him want to live – adventures, foreign travel, swimming with dolphins, whatever – and then you do it. I can help you. I’ll look things up on the internet at the library. I bet we could come up with some brilliant things for him to do. Things that would really make him happy.

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