Learning Points: Wanting to run away from the house does not make you a bad parent

"It makes us human beings."

'Children following parents around the house seeking continuous reassurance and not letting them leave the house without going with them. This behaviour is placing huge strain on the family and in particular on the couple trying to manage everything while they are in lockdown.'

The current global health crisis has placed huge strain, not only on our health service but on families, couples and children throughout the world. 

There has been a significant increase in teenagers presenting with depression, anxiety and eating disorders. Generally, when we feel like we are not in control we often develop maladaptive ways of dealing with that sense of powerlessness. We can get caught in a very paradoxical pattern of behaviour, the thing we use to satiate our difficult feelings ends up becoming more problematic than the feeling that caused it.