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When mental health awareness conflicts with cultural values

My therapist says my anxiety is trauma response but my immigrant parents say therapy is self-indulgent weakness and I don't know who to believe.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing frameworks for understanding suffering can leave you suspended between worlds, unable to heal.

Ideas that help explain it
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