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I Became a Mother at 25, and I’m Not Sorry I Didn’t Wait

By Elizabeth Bruenig — 2021

No career comes without risk, but early career precarity and minimal savings certainly raise the stakes of having kids in one’s 20s.

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Being a Mother Is Hard. Being a Mother Living with Anxiety Is Harder.

Being a mom with anxiety, hard as it is, is actually the only kind of mom I want to be.

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Elizabeth Laura Nelson
2018
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This Is What Being a Mom with Generalized Anxiety Disorder Is Like

My sister asks if she can take my son, her nephew, to the park—I say no, because if she were to get into a car accident with him and he died, I could never forgive her.

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Tiffany Jenkins
2018
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Being a Parent When You Have Anxiety

I was diagnosed as a teenager with generalized anxiety disorder and social anxiety. Everything gave me anxiety: people, schoolwork, making decisions—it all made me panic. Over time, I learned strategies to handle my anxiety. Then I had kids.

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Vanna Winters
2019
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