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How Your Own Trauma Can Create Anxiety About Your Children's Safety

I cannot stop checking on my kids every ten minutes to make sure they are breathing because I am terrified something will happen to them

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Personal experiences of vulnerability and helplessness project onto loved ones, creating compulsive protective behaviors that paradoxically increase anxiety.

Ideas that help explain it
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