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When Western mental health labels don't capture your inner experience

My therapist keeps saying I have depression but that word feels wrong for what I am carrying and I cannot explain to anyone what this heaviness actually is.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The clinical framework of mental health cannot hold the cultural and spiritual dimensions of psychological suffering.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Cultural idioms of distress?”

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