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Scenario

How ancestral duty affects mental health

My therapist says my anxiety about properly maintaining my grandparents' tablets is unhealthy but when I skip the rituals I feel like I am abandoning them and I cannot find peace either way.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The psychological weight of inherited obligation becomes pathological when perfectionism replaces devotion.

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Rabia
Rabia works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian ancestral tablets and ongoing relationship?”

Peri

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