Am I helping or enabling my adult child who suffers from mental illness?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

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🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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In this episode, I talk with Jodie and answer the question “Am I helping or enabling my adult child who suffers from mental illness?” Jodie’s daughter moved home from college after experiencing a traumatic event, and Jodie is struggling to know when to help her versus when to step back. Jodie worries that if she doesn’t do enough to help her daughter, her daughter will go on a downward spiral that could have been prevented. I remind Jodie that she is not in control of her daughter’s life...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to
0:23.2	prioritize your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host,
0:29.2	Dr. Julie Hanks, a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women
0:34.5	all over the world heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.3	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them with tools to find healing.
0:44.9	I am so excited to welcome Jody to the podcast today. Welcome Jody.
0:50.4	Thank you.
0:51.4	What is your question for me today?
0:54.0	Well, my question is how much I should help an adult
0:58.7	child that suffers from some mental illnesses. I'm stuck on being helpful to them and enabling them.
1:09.8	I've talked to some other people kind of in my same situation, and I feel like everyone's
1:14.5	kind of struggling to find resources for help.
1:17.3	Yeah.
1:17.9	So I just don't know what to do.
1:20.3	Yeah, that's a tough one.
1:21.5	So give me some more, are you comfortable giving more specifics?
1:25.6	She's 20 and has had depression and anxiety all through
1:30.1	her teen years, did pretty good managing it. We didn't have to medicate or anything. We just
1:36.0	did other methods. She moved out to go to school and unfortunately had a really traumatic
1:41.9	experience. And after that trauma, it just made everything a lot harder.
1:49.6	And for the next year or so, she kind of just continually went spiraling down.
1:56.8	And she wasn't living at home.
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