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When self-care advice conflicts with cultural values about collective responsibility

Everyone keeps telling me to practice self-care but in my family taking care of yourself before others is selfish and I cannot reconcile this.

Patan
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More people experience this than they realize.

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Individualistic wellness paradigms can violate communal ethics and create guilt around necessary self-preservation.

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