Parenting with Anxiety & PTSD- What No One Tells You — Integrative Psychotherapy Mental Health Blog

“I’m exhausted. I may just not be cut out for this parenting thing. And I’m angry because I wanted to give my own family more than I ever got as a child, but I’m failing grandly”.Rebecca sobs as she shares her woes. Parenting has been a journey that has been burdened with shame, anxiety, insecurity and doubt from the get-go. “I’ve shared my struggle with many of my friends but they usually commiserate but then move on. I can tell their pain isn’t as deep searing as mine is. What is that about?”Rebecca, was raised in a dysfunctional home and experienced childhood neglect & abuse, and is currently experiencing anxiety related post traumatic stress symptoms that have only recently risen in her parenting experiences.For some survivors of family dysfunction, trauma, neglect, abuse or loss, their symptoms are recurrent, however, for many, their emotional symptoms of their old wounds come firing up when they are parenting their own children. Irritated, Insecure and Confused? Maybe it’s Parent...