Our family WhatsApp group has become this constant stream of my aunts sharing articles about how depression doesn't exist in our culture and it's just Western weakness, while my cousin and I are both in therapy dealing with what we'd call anxiety and depression. We want to stay connected to family but these conversations are becoming really harmful and we don't know how to address it without causing a bigger rift.
More people experience this than they realize.
Family members are caught between maintaining cultural belonging and validating their own experiences of psychological distress that their culture doesn't recognize.
“Where Are You with Cultural idioms of distress?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.