Candace felt comfortable talking to her family doctor.
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At one of my daughters’ appointments, I brought it up to my family doctor, who has always been excellent about checking in with me, as the mom … and how well you’re doing, or how well I was doing, and I had told her that I was experiencing a little bit of anxiety and worrying. I never told her what it, what actually prompted it. Like, I thought I didn’t want to feed her. I just said, you know, I’m feeling a little anxious, feeling lonely.
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