u/Any_Leg_1998

I (M27) was at my desk working when my phone started lighting up with calls flagged "Likely Scam Caller." After the fifth or sixth one I picked up — it was a crisis hotline doing a welfare check. My brother had reported me as being in crisis. I'm not. I was working.

For context: I cut my entire family off two years ago and made it clear I want no contact. Since then my mental health has improved dramatically, I quit drinking and smoking, and I actually take care of myself now — which is the opposite of what they predicted when I moved out (they told me I'd fail and end up homeless). Growing up they treated me like a failure and a burden. Being away from them is what fixed it. They were the source.

A few weeks ago my brother sent one of those fake-friendly "let's reconnect" messages. I told him to piss off. This was apparently his response.

Here's what makes it more than a petty stunt:

• I got him to admit in text that he made the report.
• I have a recording of him telling me — in his own words — that his dream is to see me involuntarily committed to a psych ward. (Recorded in Texas, where he lives, which is a one-party consent state.) The second I told him I had it, he dropped the fake-concerned act entirely.

So this wasn't a misguided welfare check from someone genuinely worried. It was retaliation, and he's told me on the record that he wants me institutionalized. He doesn't take "no" for an answer and I'm worried he'll escalate.

He is sitting at a 32% approval rating, he's going to pull the same move he used in Bulter, Pa