Hi Dazed, sorry to learn your parent's behaviors are depressing you so much. Our parents can be a challenge and I think that even though it's a challenge to be around them, you can use them for learning how to better deal with difficult people. Yes, a parent can unknowingly treat a grown child like they did when the now adult was a child. Yet, it's not only a parent that can be that way, some people just ARE that way too.

You don't have to wither away emotionally as though you are just a child again. You can actually step up now as an adult. You can do some research and learn how to respond to them differently, what you learn can actually help you when you come across others down the road that behave like your parents. If there are things that your parents say or do that trigger you, that means you need to work on that more so you learn how to grow out of that mindset. You don't have to sink into whatever role you had with them anymore, you can work on building some skills instead. After all, your parents are just people.

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