Passing It On

One of my biggest fears before having children was that I’d pass on my anxiety and depression. For a long time, I didn’t think I should have kids because of that. And as much as I love my children, and as much as they have given my life incredible value, it’s been difficult to watch them, particularly as teenagers, begin to show the same mental illness traits that took me decades to work through, and hoping and praying that I can give them a leg up via personal experience to learn to live a healthy life with those personal challenges.