Whenever I talk to my family about my anxiety they get very defensive and almost try to downplay it. From my therapy sessions it’s becoming clear that a lot of my anxiety stems from childhood experiences and whenever I try to mention this to my parents it always seems to get shot down “X doesn’t feel like that and they went through a similar thing experience” they fail to understand that it’s not a single aspect but a tapestry of experiences that have led me to this point. It gets to the point now where I feel anxious to talk about my experiences at therapy and try to keep the conversations vague