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Originally Posted by Rohag
My experience may not nicely fit a childhood-emotional-neglect framework, but posting here may nevertheless be valuable.
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It sounds like your parents played emotional mind games with you,
so they did neglect your emotional needs.
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Among other things, I suffer from long-term depression and anxiety.
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It would help to know how these problems manifest themselves. Can you give any examples?
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The simple realization of the irrationality is woefully insufficient to cancel the early social programming.
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Does this realization have an emotional effect on you or do you feel disconnected from it? Have you ever discussed any of this with your parents? Do you still have a social relationship with them?