What you're about to hear is an unscripted one-time couples counseling session.

It contains mature themes and listener discretion is advised.

For the purposes of maintaining confidentiality, names and some identifiable characteristics have been removed.

But their voices and their stories are real.

We don't understand what's happened or how to help her and what parts we even can help her with and what parts she just has to figure out.

The specific things of this happened or this happened or this is going on.

It's not as important as we need to get a better.

I mean, whether that's next week, next month, next year, we just need to get a better.

In a family, there are various couples.

One, the intimate couple, the spousal couple.

But the other is also the parental couple.

This couple came in not for marital issues, but for difficulties and challenges that they were having between them and their daughter.

She was diagnosed with bipolar and anxiety and depression, PTSD.

All of the above in the last two years.

We haven't told. We don't talk about it with our family. There's maybe two people who know.

I can't keep lying. I feel like I'm lying to everybody.

I'm lying to family, I'm lying to friends.

I couldn't even imagine not doing this with somebody.

I could imagine tearing people apart. Easy. Very easy.

Yeah.

The parents have sought help, but they received help as a couple.

And it seemed to me that this couple doesn't need help as a couple.

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