I have tried to hide alot of my depression and anxiety from PTSD from my kids but they have picked up on it. Kids are very smart at a young age to sense things even when you hide it. Just being able to openly talk about it with your son now is a huge positive. I still cant bring myself to talk to my younger kids about things... things that i have tried my best to shelter them from. I have opened up resently to my older adult children so they would have a better understanding of why things are the way they are.
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Originally Posted by Can't Stop Crying
I have PTSD and wonder if my children can "learn" some of the associated behaviors from me. ie hypervigilence, anxiety, depression. My 15 year old son displays some symptoms of PTSD (he has no trauma history, I'm not being naive, he has in his words had a "relatively normal life") Could he have learned these behaviors from me?
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