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When parents and teens navigate mental health struggles simultaneously

My teenage daughter and I are both struggling with depression and we've started therapy separately, but living together means we sometimes feed into each other's worst days and I don't know how to be a good parent when I'm barely keeping it together myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The roles of caregiver and care-receiver become blurred when both people in a dependent relationship are struggling.

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