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When your cultural resilience gets pathologized

My therapist doesn't understand why I find my family's dramatic reactions to small problems so hilarious instead of traumatic and I'm starting to question my own coping mechanisms.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The adaptive strategies that helped your community survive are being reframed as dysfunction by professional authorities.

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