[colechristensen]

Expanding on this to postulate: This is why old fairy-tales were so dark and frightening. Scary stories prepare you for a scary world, which it definitely was not so long ago. Many of the feedback systems in your brain are trained in childhood and become much more fixed as an adult. Homeostasis trained on the "child" dataset goes all out of order on the "adult" dataset when the two are too different.

Lavish your child with praise and attention, everything they could want and making sure everyone is successful at everything and never "fails" ... come to the real world as an adult and reality isn't as nice, the world isn't actually like what you grew up in and your feedback systems simply aren't equipped or designed to handle the situation life puts you in.