The following pages are excerpts from Bury Me Already (It’s Nice Down Here) which is mostly about having a baby, but also involves a family crisis. For those of you who are familiar with my older brother from my previous books, please know he has recovered and is doing well. 

I’m posting these pages for Mental Health Awareness month. For those struggling, NAMI.org can be a helpful resource. 

While I don’t normally put trigger warnings on my work, please note these pages discuss an extreme mental health crisis, a traumatic accident, bodily harm, and talk of suicide.

These pages do not appear next to each other in the book, nor are they all the pages that cover this issue. The events depicted below occurred between 2020-2022.

These are probably the last pages I’ll post about my brother. There’s no way to adequately express how grateful I am that he chose to stay with us, and that he is doing well now. For anyone struggling with mental illness, and/or for family members and friends of those people, NAMI is a good resource, and I highly encourage attending support groups since talking, sharing, and being around others who understand are the only way to get through it.

Here’s my brothers, my mom and me at Oakland Comic Con last weekend on Mother’s Day.

Side note about books:
This is the book in which these pages appear. My old brother is also a prominent character in my previous books, most notably Impossible People. My little brother appears more prominently in The Infinite Wait and Bury Me Already, and my mother appears in them all. Sorry, Ma! 

You can buy (most of) these books anywhere books are sold, and I highly encourage getting them at local bookstores. I also sell some of them as packages with extra goodies on my website juliawertz.com/store