My partner is Mexican and I'm white and when he gets overwhelmed he talks about 'susto' and his mom wants to take him to a curandera, but I keep pushing therapy and antidepressants because that's what helped me. We're stuck because we both want to help but we're approaching his distress from completely different cultural frameworks and I don't know how to bridge that.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are trying to care for one another across fundamentally different cultural understandings of psychological distress and healing.
“Where Are You with Cultural idioms of distress?”
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