Art of Being You

Being a young caregiver to a family member who has a mental illness is difficult and really confusing. Questions of doubt and self-worth continually invade the mind of a child caregiver. And these questions continue into adulthood. Young caregivers, including myself, are taught to respond to life with an anxious lens. Anxiety becomes a way of life, through lessons taught by parents. Children do not necessarily inherit the anxiety disorder, although it is possible. Either way, anxiety continues w