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When parents and teens need to repair relationship damage from mental health crises

My teenage daughter and I had some terrible fights when she was going through her worst depression, and now that she's doing better we both act like that time didn't happen, but I can see she doesn't trust me the same way and I don't know how to earn that back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Healing from illness doesn't automatically heal the relational wounds created while everyone was struggling to cope.

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