Are you a COPMI child too? Some of this may feel familiar. I’m not a big fan of labels. Especially when it comes to something as layered as growing up with a mentally ill parent. Labels can easily reduce complex human experiences to a single term and suddenly it feels as if that word defines everything about you. T hey also tend to create identities that are more limiting than helpful and keep you stuck in the condition they describe, like a small cage where you remain trappe