If you feel resentment, exhaustion, or loss of your own school/work life. You are a sibling, not a savior. Say: “I love you, and I need to take 24 hours for myself. I’ll be back.”
The first day of my sister’s school refusal didn't start with a scream, but with a heavy, unmoving silence. What we initially thought was a one-off "mental health day" quickly spiralled into a thirty-day odyssey that tested the limits of our family’s patience and understanding. School refusal, often misunderstood as simple truancy or bad behavior, is a complex emotional crisis that turns a household into a battlefield of anxiety and desperation. 30 days with my schoolrefusing sister
