See, you detect the anxiety underneath, and react with comforting. But no one IRL will do that. And that is just the beginning of what is needed, if one is not to fall right back into the same hole. Again and again and again.

There was something that came in the Psych Central newsletter recently, and was on one of the blogs here, I think. Can't find it now. It was about how babies with comforting mothers turned out to be emotionally healthy adults. DUH!!!! The latest "scientific" finding, I guess.