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Do you ever feel like your difficult child's issues have created mental health issues in yourself
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 333874" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Not in that respect, Janet. But although we joke about "insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children" there is some truth in it. Obviously not genetically transmissable from child to parent, but we've all said here, that living with the strain of raising a difficult child does take its toll. In that respect, I think we DO get it from our kids!</p><p></p><p>I'll do some digging, maybe send of some emails to a researcher I know who has been working on depression for yonks. Interestingly, he now heads the clinic where difficult child 3 is getting treatment, plus they're doing a lot of work with autistic kids. Still, the depression research is also continuing, apparently independently. I'm thinking I could approach the autism researchers and pick their brains. They should be back from their summer break by next week. I'm developing a good list of questions to ask them.</p><p></p><p>When we talk about depression, we're probably jumbling up two different types - reactive, and endogenous. Even in our kids - which type is their depression? Is their depression a clinical fragment of whatever-it-is that makes them a difficult child? Or is it their reaction to their increasingly difficult life?</p><p></p><p>And in us - would we have developed depression anyway, if we didn't have such challenging kids? Or is having to deal with them, what tipped us over into mental illness?</p><p></p><p>Can we even be sure of the answers?</p><p></p><p>Maybe some can.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 333874, member: 1991"] Not in that respect, Janet. But although we joke about "insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children" there is some truth in it. Obviously not genetically transmissable from child to parent, but we've all said here, that living with the strain of raising a difficult child does take its toll. In that respect, I think we DO get it from our kids! I'll do some digging, maybe send of some emails to a researcher I know who has been working on depression for yonks. Interestingly, he now heads the clinic where difficult child 3 is getting treatment, plus they're doing a lot of work with autistic kids. Still, the depression research is also continuing, apparently independently. I'm thinking I could approach the autism researchers and pick their brains. They should be back from their summer break by next week. I'm developing a good list of questions to ask them. When we talk about depression, we're probably jumbling up two different types - reactive, and endogenous. Even in our kids - which type is their depression? Is their depression a clinical fragment of whatever-it-is that makes them a difficult child? Or is it their reaction to their increasingly difficult life? And in us - would we have developed depression anyway, if we didn't have such challenging kids? Or is having to deal with them, what tipped us over into mental illness? Can we even be sure of the answers? Maybe some can. Marg [/QUOTE]
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