What Is Normal Separation Anxiety?

How would a parent know what is a normal healthy level of separation anxiety and what isn't? Carlin: It always comes back to the extent to which it's impacting on their everyday functioning. So this is a child who literally finds it very difficult to function without you kind of glued on to them. The Myth of Normal by Gabe Oramatti says that independence is nature's agenda, okay. And we forget that we, as you say, Carlin, we catastrophize, we imagine the worst.