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In a healthy family, each member is encouraged to be a separate person with his or her own interests and goals, but in a dysfunctional family, members have difficulty in establishing or respecting personal boundaries. Individual family members may feel enmeshed with each other and feel they have the right to direct the lives of anyone else in the family unit. Eventually, the lack of privacy and autonomy may lead one of the members to serious mental health problems.

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