Hi guys, I haven't been diagnosed with BPD due to the fact I was having one of the ok days when I went to the psychiatrist, but I'm pretty sure I have some form of quiet BPD. My parents are pretty emotional, mom always says we come from a sensitive family, that's how she explained my behavior all my life. The relationship with my parents pretty much sucked and they were neglectful until I tried killing myself 6 years ago and since then we have been very close.  I am somehow proud of that because 'due to ' that, my little 10 years old brother has got far more attention and care than me, so somehow I opened their eyes and they started seeing their mistakes. 

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Anyway, I thought this all was relevant for the following matter.  As I said, my brother has had a better childhood than mine, objectively speaking. I've had major anxiety and lack of social skills since I was little. He's social, has friends, does sports, does well in school, and looks like having a good self esteem and he's very smart and thoughtful. However, there are some times in which he enters some sort of crisis in which he says he should die, disappear, he's useless, no one loves him, he's horrible, stuff like that.  Now, there are probably a lot of possible reasons why he would say such stuff - maybe he hears my parents talking about me, maybe he took some of my angry behavior, maybe he found it on the internet or friends. 

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What I wanna know is what could I do, or talk to him about, in such a manner to see if he's ok or not? I mean sure he's young and it's normal to have such temper tantrums but I see myself a lot in him and that worries me. Do you have any experience with how such children should be approached? I told mom to take him to a psychologist but she doesn't want to, so I was thinking maybe I could approach him somehow, but I don't know what I could say or ask, since I'm a wreck myself.

Thanks!

tl;dr : My 10 yo brother has crises in which he feels useless and wants to die - how can I approach this?

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