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When parent and child share mental health struggles

My teenage daughter and I are both dealing with depression and sometimes I can't tell if I'm modeling healthy coping for her or if we're just enabling each other's worst habits. When one of us is having a bad day it pulls the other down and I don't know how to break that cycle without abandoning her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The line between empathetic connection and emotional enmeshment becomes dangerously unclear when both people are struggling.

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