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How to integrate traditional and Western mental health approaches

My traditional healing practices help my anxiety more than Western medicine but I cannot tell my psychiatrist because he will think I am not compliant

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two healing systems are being experienced as incompatible when both offer necessary medicine.

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“Where Are You with Mental health across cultures — stigma and access?”

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