How Toxic Parents Are Harmful To Mental Health?

How to cope with a toxic Parent-child relationship?

Fahim chughtai
6 min readDec 18, 2021
How Toxic Parents Are Harmful To Mental Health
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Children are often told by their parents to follow in their footsteps. But what happens when the footsteps they’re following are leading them down a destructive path?

While the term “Toxic Mom” might sound like something out of a horror movie, it’s actually quite common. Women who fit this description are usually excessively controlling, always finding ways to demean and undermine their children.

When you have a father who is constantly critical of you, it can be hard to go out and have fun. He may not mean any harm when he says something hurtful, but that doesn’t make life with him any easier. If you’re in a toxic relationship with your father, then read on to discover how to get pass the pain and live a happier life.

Although toxic relationships aren’t exclusively parent-child relationships, the toxic nature of these relationships can be the most destructive, since parents are the ones who help influence how their children see their world and themselves.

Mother and father figures can mean different things in different families, especially in single-parent or multi-generational families. That said, we will look primarily at what it means to have a toxic maternal relationship…

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Fahim chughtai

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