Without a nurturing connection with a caretaker, she may flounder for long periods of time in a depression that can devolve into The Failure to Thrive Syndrome. A child who is never comforted when she is depressed has no model for developing a self-comforting response to her own depression. Functional parents respond to a child's depression with concern and comfort abandoning parents respond to it with anger, disgust and further abandonment, which in turn create the fear, shame and despair that become characteristic of the abandonment depression. It naturally makes her feel and appear deadened and depressed. Chronic emotional abandonment is one of the worst things that can happen to a child.
The etiology of a self-abandoning response to depression.
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