World Mental Health Day: Culture's impact on mental health
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How Do You Think About Mental Distress?
Mental distress is a domain that oftentimes when we think about the medical field, it's separated out. When you go to physical problems, you go to your primary care physician. If you have mental health problems, yougo to a psychologist or social worker. You talked about the way that you might think of mental distress could be different than the person you were speaking to. Could you share a story of someone in particular? And as an example, that may be benefited from this approach? Yeah. One of the clients that I had interacted with, they were Cambodian American, had gone through the Khmer Rouge genocide. That also continued to affect their mental health to this day.
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