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[quote=Anonymous]Your sibling has no emotional regulation.  She can't regulate her emotions at all. So when she feels bad, she feels as bad as it is possible for her to feel and when she feels good, she feels really, really good.  She's miserable all the time.

Develop an action plan for what to do when she threatens suicide or talks about it.  That email isn't threatening, it is explaining how bad she feels and then states that she isn't going to do it. Tell her that you know she feels bad, but the only thing to do is to keep moving forward for Cally's sake. Tell her that you know she can do it. She's a strong person to live with this all this time.  Ask her to promise to call you or her therapist if she decides to kill herself. (Google "suicide safety plans" or "safety contracts").  Email her therapist and ask the therapist to address it with her.

If she actually threatens suicide ("Please take care of Cally. I am going to kill myself." ), you have to call 911 and ask them to do a check on her.  Let the professionals take care of it. That is what they do.

On a day to day basis, encourage her to do one thing that will make her feel good today. Every day. The thing about borderlines is that they can snap out of the bad feelings as fast they snap into them.

Does she have meds? Because meds will even that out some.

Good luck, OP. Borderline is hell for everyone. [/quote]

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