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Why Western individualism feels impossible in collectivist cultures

My therapist keeps talking about boundaries with my family but she does not understand that in my culture family is everything and individual needs come second

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Therapeutic goals are clashing with cultural values in ways that make healing feel like cultural abandonment.

Ideas that help explain it
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