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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am a therapist. The rage women feel is from an invalidating environment and the fact that they are ultimately held responsible for their children's conduct. There is an epidemic of children born with mental health problems (from ADHD to Autism to ODD) and these mothers are punished, judged, and excluded by society - as they were once blamed as "refrigerator moms" not that long ago, we haven't come much farther in our society.  Today, it's the mother's job to deliver the therapy interventions to the child despite the fact that many of these interventions don't bring much success and thereby bring more feelings of inadequacy, frustration, fatigue, and failure to the mother.  Then these children hit adolescence.  No one talks about the emotional and physical abuse that mothers endure from their children from the earliest of ages while they are responsible for nurturing and caring for them. Day in and day out, day in and day out. Knowing these kids may be dependent forever.  This is a societal problem.  Isolation and rejection from society causes rage and depression. It's like having a homeless person come to therapy to discuss how they can manage being homeless better. Ridiculous. [/quote]

NP here. Thank you so much for posting this. [/quote]

+1 thank you [/quote]

I feel like the ghost of Nancy Lanza hangs over every SN mother.  Clearly she did things wrong.  And she ended up as the first victim.  But if you read the Newton report, it is very clear that, say what you will, she tried like hell to get help for her kid starting in Kindergarten.  Her husband left and took her other kid to another state, the schools and therapies were ultimately unsuccessful....and she goes down in history as literally the most unsuccessful mother ever.  Every time someone says “God never gives you more than you can handle!” I think “Tell it to Nancy Lanza’s ghost.”[/quote]

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