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ARE YOU AN ALPHA CHILD?

Anxiety Rx

CHAPTER

Anxiety and Parenting

A lot of my anxiety peeps are like this, as they wind up looking after one of their parents. So I turned into an alpha child because that was my way of having some sense of control over my environment. And we get very good at it. We also, what my friend Mark Wolin talks about and it didn't start with you about intergenerational trauma is we get the sense of power, the sense of inflation for being like an adult.Rusty can look after mom, Rusty can look after dad. There is this sense of control and power, but it doesn't come from a holistic place," she says.

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