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.
More people experience this than they realize.
Parental anxiety about a struggling child can create secondary conflict between caregivers that compounds the original crisis.
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