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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I tried to push my kid academically when she was younger and I think I have contributed to her teenage depression and anxiety. I now gently encourage but no more pressure.[/quote]

This is not true. She probably would have depression or anxiety even if you didn't push her. PP, please don't blame yourself for your daughter's mental health issues. [/quote]

Oh sweetie you need to do a little research on how parents are the main reason for their kid's mental health issues.  [/quote]

wut? parents play literally no role in mental health issues, except for passing their genetic propensities. [/quote]

This is an uneducated statement.[/quote]

Here’s one of many common sense examples that proves you wrong:

Parent is a violent alcoholic who chronically abuses spouse and child over multiple years. Home is unstable as a result. Child endures violence and lives in fear.

Later, as an adult, that child suffers from depression and anxiety.

Do you think their violent and abusive parent played “literally no role” in creating those “mental
health issues, except for padding their genetic properties”???[/quote]

this doesn't prove anything. alcoholism is highly heritable and so are other mental issues.

also, while severe abuse might have some effect (no evidence whatsoever that it has even moderate effect, btw), people here are saying that, say, expecting good grades has similar effect.[/quote]

Nice strawman.  No, no one has said expecting high grades has the same effect of the abuse of an addict parent.[/quote]

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