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Oh, that makes a lotta sense! Sorry to hear about your familial context, though:(

Had a rough upbringing as well, anxiety and I are old friends by this point, but I developed the opposite - I pushed toward resilience, toward holding it in for as long as possible, precisely because I understood I couldn't count on anyone around me.