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Do you feel as though circumstances in your childhood meant you had to grow up too fast? Did one or both of your parents lean on you for emotional support even though you were just a kid? You might have been emotionally parentified. While parentified kids often grow into caring and resilient adults, they also go through a lot of trauma in the process. Read on to find out more about parentification and how you can start the healing journey yourself if you were emotionally parentified.
Things You Should Know
- With emotional parentification, a parent depends on their child to give them the emotional support they should be getting from other adults.
- Signs of parentification include a child serving as a mediator during adult disagreements or offering advice on adult situations.
- Effects of parentification that last into adulthood include difficulty trusting other people, higher emotional stress, anxiety, and depression.
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References
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- ↑ https://aeon.co/essays/how-can-adults-undo-the-harm-of-being-parentified-as-children
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- ↑ https://www.attachmentproject.com/psychology/parentification/
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