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Overfunctioning

Overfunctioning is taking excessive responsibility for a child’s problems, discomfort, or choices in an effort to reduce anxiety.

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Managing anxiety and reducing worry parenting

Managing anxiety and reducing worry parenting

Why parenting can intensify anxiety Parenting places the brain in a state of heightened responsibility. You are monitoring safety, nutrition, sleep, schooling, emotions, social relationships, finances, and future outcomes, often while sleep-deprived and time-pressured. From a neurobiological perspective, worry can be understood as an attempt to predict and prevent threat. The amygdala and related threat-detection […]