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When your child died from mental illness you tried to fight

My daughter died from an eating disorder and I keep thinking about every meal we fought over and wondering if I pushed her toward the thing that killed her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The parent's efforts to save their child become suspect in retrospect, transforming love into potential culpability.

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