My brother has severe panic attacks to the point where he doesn’t go to school and seems suicidal and no one in my family seems to care. (He’s 11, I have kids but my mom and siblings moved in with me cuz my parents split)

He’s been this way for at least a year and has gone truant and dropped out of school and online school and somehow still hasn’t seen a counselor. I’ve brought up my concerns to my mom multiple times and all she says is oh he just has a phobia of throwing up and that’s why he freaks out so bad. But he feels that way because of anxiety and it’s never gonna go away. I’ve spent my whole day so far in his room while he cries and freaks out, holding his hand. The window is open and it’s freezing in here yet he says he’s over heating. I wish I could get him counseling or some sort of help but I’m not his guardian. I was this way at his age too, it’s genetic and he really needs to be medicated like me. I have severe non seasonal depression and I behaved just like him as a child and I didn’t get help until I turned 18 and got it for myself. I’m scared he’s going to commit suicide, my mom has had to come home early from work multiple days this week to sit in his room and hold his hand until he falls asleep in the middle of the day. He had a special accommodation plan at school and the school counselor gave my mom counselor recommendations but she hasn’t even called them to set an appointment and it’s been months of me asking about it. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/31oJE7X