Strategies to Cope with "Empty Nest Syndrome"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- "Empty Nest Syndrome" isn’t a clinical diagnosis according to Mayo Clinic - but it is real. It's the depression, loss of purpose and crisis of identity that parents feel when kids leave home. Joining us with useful advice and strategies to cope with Empty Nest Syndrome is clinical psychologist and national speaker Dr. John Duffy. For more information on Dr. John Duffy and to pre-order his new book "Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety", visit DrJohnDuffy.com.
Having to find who I am in this new chapter/journey in my life feels kind of daunting. 😞
Mine is about to move out. I've been a single dad. Right now I'm just sobbing. She's my world. I don't know what to do.
I am in a similar situation. I'm so shocked. My daughter just told me she's moving into my Moms house for the rest of her senior year of highschool. Told me she's tired of watching me struggle financially. I lost my Dad to covid in 2020 and he was such a champion for me. I just feel so sad.
@John Smith I'm getting better. They said I would. I didn't believe them but I am. Boy that's a rough one. Congratulations on your daughter success.
@John Smith I think it'll always hit us from time to time, just less frequently. It would be a good time to sell the house. Eliminate those triggers, scale down. Do some traveling.
@@anthonyindy1 I apologize for not responding sooner. I just now saw your comment. How are you doing?
@@joedonlewis9820 I am just trying to keep on keeping on.
I feel this right now. My eldest just left home this week. It's like grief
Yes, it does feel like grief. It helps a little to know we aren't alone in this pain.
I am having a moment listening to this. I am a single Mom and I was so busy and now I went into a halt. 😢 I miss him so much.
I was crying my eyes out when I found this video. Thank you
Moving to his dad's next week for college. Started to take some stuff today.
Crying 😢
Me yesterday. My daughter moved in with her dad to spend time to get to know him more l. After being with me for 18 years..I get it but I miss her. Day 2 and her room is empty with only a few items ( we built together)😭🤦🏾♀️
Sorry for you both 😞
My 19 year old moved out three months a go into her dad's ,I feel so lost 😢
... It doesn't happen to only mommies . . . . . . . . .
You try losing three babies and left childless
I'm so very sorry for your pain 😔💓 I cannot begin to imagine 💔
No, this is a desperate insane feeling. I can't see life happy ever again.
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Stay strong, your child(ren) love you!
How are you doing now? My little bird will be flying away soon as well - not looking forward to it.
Do you feel better? I’m going through the same right now.
@@waynebeaver4096 how do you feel? Today my son moved from home and I’m very sad
@@sinceridad5864 it is better at times, but I still cry especially when I remeber or have to do things we used to do together.
How can a single mom of twins cope with empty nest syndrome?
As a single mom of twins who just transitioned them to college, I would love to know the answer to that as well.
@@lgempet2869 it's day to day. It's grief. I have forced myself back to my hobbies and I stay close to friends even if it's just a texts but it's important. I love my job and my pets. Fake it to make it. I talk to one of my girls once a week. The other two kids call less but I have to respect what they choose because the last thing I want is to spook them off with "hovering" or God forbid I cry.
What can you do to cope when you've been a single stay at home mother ?
Oh Lord my heart is breaking, this pain is killing me. I never thought it was going to be like this
@@MrsNsf74 me too. I swear I'm dying.
@cogamers84 no one said the word vlogs
@@Willamina-m6k did it ever go away 😥 I feel so depressed
@@AshleyJohnson-up6fe It gets better. It just takes time. Do something you truly like to do on your own. Even if it's just take a relaxing bath, read, or get lost in a movie or tik tok
I’m on year 5
Many parents, especially fathers, have their kids taken from them at a much younger age by force, without reason, and cut off from all communication. If you think its painful having to live your life with your children a phone call away from you afrer having experienced the joy of raising them from a young child to a responsible adult, imagine how it feel to have lost them before having a chance to enjoy all those moments and never getting the opportunity to reflect on those memories, all the while spending those years of yourife in torment not even knowing if the life you created is still alive. Your nest may be empty but some lunatic burnt my nest to the ground with gasoline and a flamethrower and then pissed on the ashes while they laughed as they watched me unravel and fall apart. If you feel like your emoty nest has left some empty void in your life in need of filling grab a bucket of water and start puting some fires out because there are too many helpless souls out there to count out there who are desperately seeking assistance from a kind soul amidst a pit of ruthless venomous vipers. At least you got to watch your little birds fly from the nest. You have no idea what a blessing that is.
Once a week phone calls?😩😩😩
Exactly 😢!!!!
Yes the house is definitely cleaner. 😂
My son moved out because our landlord said since he was 18 he had to move out and then changed the lease and he had to get a place of his Is own and 2 jobs so he could do that and I was a disabled single parent on a fixed income so I didn’t make enough money and I became homeless living in my car took me 9 months to get on hud now that I got a place I have empty nest syndrome really bad and my son is to busy working to visit me I feel so sad every day all I want to do is cry 😭 I am so upset that the landlord made my only son move out just because he was 18 years old this is not ok
I am going to fight in court when I feel up to it but, I don’t know how to get past my Empty nest syndrome since my situation is a little different
I hope u get some help in court. Thats awful your landlord made your son leave! Not right!
That's terrible 😢
Nest not very empty if one or more of grandparetns still living there.
Rest assure that no one in my family has this syndrome. This doesnt run in my family at all, not one one single bit...not even the slightest.
You must have kept yourselves very very busy...
As usual society assumes we all can have kids. Shame on you
No shade, then this video wouldn’t pertain to you. Just like I wouldn’t watch a construction video that doesn’t pertain to me. Simple! Not trying to be mean, but it’s clear that this video is meant to help those who it pertains to.