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When partners have different cultural approaches to mental health

My husband wants me to get help but in my country you handle these things with family and prayer and I do not know how to bridge these worlds.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Conflicting healing paradigms within intimate relationships create secondary trauma around the expression of distress.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cultural idioms of distress?”

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