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When your life choices trigger your child's mental health crisis

My ten-year-old has been having panic attacks since the divorce and I know I caused this but I could not stay in that marriage and I do not know how to fix what I broke.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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A parent lives with the knowledge that their necessary decisions may have wounded their child in ways that cannot be undone.

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