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Scenario

When a parent's helping becomes enabling with a depressed adult child

My adult son struggles with depression and I've become so focused on managing his moods and trying to help him that I've lost track of my own life, and I think my hovering is actually making his depression worse but I don't know how to stop without feeling like I'm abandoning him.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Love can manifest as behaviors that ultimately reinforce the very problems we're trying to solve.

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