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When parent and child share mental health struggles

My teenage daughter and I are both dealing with depression and we're in therapy separately but sometimes I worry we're enabling each other's worst patterns and other times I think we're the only ones who really understand each other and I don't know which is true.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The line between mutual understanding and mutual reinforcement of suffering becomes blurred when family members share similar internal struggles.

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