This may be more of a rant, but I'm open to opinions and suggestions. Here's the story.

I have 5 siblings, 4 bros, 1 sis. My sister is the biggest blabbermouth on the planet. You can't tell her anything without everyone in the family and town hearing about it. One of my brothers is extremely ill, potentially terminally without a transplant. He has frequent hospitalizations about which he chooses to tell no one. Because I am closest to him and his family, I often hear about them. Out of my loyalty to my parents, when I hear he's been hospitalized, I tell my parents. They tell no one, respecting his privacy. He nearly died a year and a half ago and I was smack in the middle of this disaster as he and his wife are divorcing, she's a drunk and his kids were minors at the time. It was a horrible, horrible time.

My parents know my sister is a blabbermouth and we have agreed to tell her nothing about his frequent hospitalizations. Well, he was hospitalized again this week, was in ICU but seems to be ok. This is the 6th or 7th time this has happened in the past 2 years. I found out today that my mother told my sister about this. How did I find this out? From my big mouth sister, of course, who emailed me for info. I'm furious. Beyond furious.

I emailed another brother and told him I refuse to be in the middle of this anymore. My sick brother craves privacy. If he doesn't tell anyone he's in the hospital then I'm not going to tell anyone either. He is entitled to his privacy. I was telling my parents only as a courtesy. But now the whole family, and many others, will know he was in the hospital again. My brother would be livid if he knew.

Am I overreacting here? I HATE being in the middle of this. But I'm the trusted kid, the one who holds things together, who keeps the necessary secrets and is there whenever anyone has a crisis. I've had enough. If my brother wants to keep things to himself I think that's his right. I don't want to know about it unless he wants to tell me. And I'm not going to tell anyone else unless he tells me to. Is this a reasonable response? I could KILL my sister right now. We don't get along generally anway but to know that she's blabbing things around the family that we have intentionally been trying to keep quiet is bugging the sh*t out of me.

Thoughts? Suggestions? Can I divorce my family? I've had enough of the whole lot of them, to be honest. I was a miserable kid, felt unworthy of life my whole life and now everyone depends on me. No wonder I'm always depressed..