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I'm struggling and trying so hard to struggle a little bit less, but it's all so hard. I feel like I'm in a complete tailspin and I'm full of impending doom and fear bordering on complete panic.

Bit of a can't sleep ramble...

I saw a suggestion about that 'let them theory' book and how it can help parents, so I did a bit of a search and I found a piece by the author on dealing with teens. It a really made me feel completely awful and alien. It was about how she didn't get annoyed/frustrated by her son deciding to go to prom last minute. I'm not knocking 'regular' parenting struggles..I know it's rarely easy but I guess it just reminded me again, well slapped me hard in the face with the reality that my problems arent regular run of the mill stuff. There's no podcast or best selling book out there to help. It's all dark and secretive and shameful and lonely. The book might actually be different, just the piece I read gave me a big enough lump in my throat that I won't be going near the book.

I'm not really one for self help books either so I don't really know why I looked into it. Desperation I suppose.

Lack of sleep doesnt help but I haven't found a solution yet.