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When mental illness is trapped in one language

I'm bilingual but my depression only exists in English and when I switch to Tagalog the sadness literally disappears.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Psychological suffering is encoded in language-specific neural networks, suggesting the cultural construction of mental distress.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Language learning and cognitive effects?”

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