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When beliefs about deceased loved ones watching create anxiety

Everyone says my mother is 'looking down on me' but she had terrible anxiety when she was alive and the thought of her watching my failures just makes me feel worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Projections of the deceased's earthly personality onto their supposed spiritual state are generating additional emotional burden.

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