My teenage daughter and I both struggle with depression and sometimes I can't tell if I'm modeling healthy coping or if we're just enabling each other's worst habits — like when we both stay in bed all weekend I don't know if that's rest or avoidance.
More people experience this than they realize.
Parallel mental health challenges between parent and child can blur the distinction between healthy modeling and mutual reinforcement of dysfunction.
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