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When caring becomes compulsive checking

I keep checking on my elderly father multiple times a day even though he has told me he is fine because I am terrified something will happen and it will be my fault for not being there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your anxiety about loss has transformed love into surveillance, creating the very burden you fear becoming.

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