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What does it mean to be a parental child?
A woman talking to her therapist:
I don’t have any reason to be depressed and anxious, I had a good childhood.
My father left us when I was 6 but it was OK; he was never around anyway and when he was all I remember is shouting.
No, I didn’t see him for many years. Not until I was 15.
We were 3 children. It was hard on my mother; she had to start working two jobs.
I was the oldest so of course I helped out. Someone had to take care of the family.
What do you mean, it was not my job to take care of the family! My mother was a saint, she worked so hard and when she came home she was tired, upset. Sometimes my mother would cry, I tried to help her, to cheer her…
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