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How to manage parental anxiety with DBT techniques

I practice distress tolerance daily but when my adult daughter ignores my texts I panic like she has been kidnapped and call her friends.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Parental love can trigger such intense protective instincts that normal communication gaps feel like life-threatening emergencies.

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