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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband and I are both extremely anxious overachievers from fairly dysfunctional homes. Our kids have so much anxiety  (likely inherited) that it makes it difficult for them to handle life’s stressors. They have struggled socially, academically etc.

I wonder if they would have done better if both my husband and I had sought help for our anxiety earlier. It’s hard to conceptualize of a whole family though where everyone is on antidepressants, Zoloft etc. Sometimes we think of ourselves as kind of a generic cocktail that probably shouldn’t have been mixed. [/quote]

Not sure if OP would think of me as accomplished (very fancy degrees but very mommy tracked job) but both my kids are in therapy. My husband and I have been done it in the past, me several times. We have had similar conversations about the rough genetic hand we dealt our kids anxiety wise! But aside from some short periods of time where my kids were disasters (not the same time, thankfully) they seem to be ok. We value mental health very highly in our house and try to be very open about our own struggles. It’s funny, now my older one is doing so well she’s mentioned therapy and got some funny looks -I am sure there are people who think I am insane. But we do it because we need it to be ok. [/quote]

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