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When parents disagree on supporting an adult child's mental health crisis

My son is home from college dealing with severe anxiety and my husband and I have completely different instincts about how much to accommodate versus push him, and every interaction with our kid has become a negotiation between the two of us that he can definitely sense.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Parental anxiety about a struggling child can create secondary conflict between caregivers that compounds the original crisis.

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