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When setting boundaries with mentally ill family feels like choosing their death

I am codependent with my alcoholic mother and my therapist says I need boundaries but she raised me alone and choosing myself feels like abandoning her to die

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Self-preservation and filial love wage war in the children of the wounded.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Love and mental illness?”

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