My teenage daughter and I are both learning CBT skills - she's working with a therapist for depression and I'm trying to support her by learning the techniques myself, but sometimes I think I'm becoming the thought police instead of her mom, challenging her cognitive distortions when she just wants to vent.
More people experience this than they realize.
A parent's well-intentioned adoption of therapeutic tools is creating tension around when to be a therapist versus when to simply be present.
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