Dear Num6:

You wrote that you suffer from depression and anxiety, prior to your son’s plan to join the air force, correct? If you haven’t attended quality psychotherapy it may be the time. If you did, it may be time to resume such or start therapy with a new therapist.

I suggest that you don’t expect to feel thrilled about your son’s choice. Don’t expect to feel anything that you don’t feel. There are plenty of ways to manage anxiety and plenty that is suggested in the blogs on the home page of this website.

It may, or may not be useful to explore this, if you will be exploring this with me.. starting with my question:

Did anxiety ever help you, did it ever increase your safety, so far in life?

anita