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[quote=Anonymous]Just got in a big fight with my parents because we haven’t been “allowing” our child to spend the night in months. Truth is, that’s only partially true; our DC has been uncomfortable the past few visits with grandparents. We’ve been coming up with plans or reasons why sleep overs can’t happen. The parent in question has long struggled with anxiety and depression, and in the past months it has been much worse. When our DC comes home she complains of hearing grandma crying all night, grandma and grandpa arguing, and grandma bringing up and crying over dead family members and pets. Our child is 7 and becomes fixated on death in the days after she spends the night. My dad, grandpa, is no help. He’s developed a sort of Stockholm Syndrome to cope with dealing with her.

I know the crying and the death talk comes from the depression, and that the anxiety causes the bickering. It’s no longer a place we feel our child needs to go for extended periods alone, and not a place she desires to go alone either. The atmosphere hasn’t been appropriate lately. But how do you tell this to someone so deeply depressed and anxious without sending them over the edge? [/quote]

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