Mental health struggle is not a popular concept in Asia. Shrinks don’t garner good business in that part of the globe. Asia so have the lowest recorded mental health problems but the operative word? Recorded. Just because it’s not documented doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. The aversion to it, however, is embedded in our history in culture.
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