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How a child's crisis forces you to examine your own unhealed wounds

My teenage daughter attempted suicide last month and while she is getting help, I find myself questioning every parenting choice I ever made and wondering if my own hidden depression taught her that life was not worth living.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A child's mental health emergency can illuminate the ways your own unprocessed pain may have created the very atmosphere you tried to protect them from.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Post-traumatic growth — what can grow in the soil of loss?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.