Re: Mental Health in Our Culture
one of my cousin from UK married a typical Pakistani guy and moved to Canada, started living with inlaws, went into depression instead of helping her she was forced to move to the lower basement of the house, and went mad, she was a practising barrister in UK not a nut case then, and the guy kept her in literally a cage even denied her having kids, and then finally due to his own family pressure dumped her back in UK and sent her divorce after keeping her like that for 6 years. The inlaws didn’t have guts to take her to a doc to get her checked out until she finally called me one day to get her out of there. They told me they are so ashamed of her only ‘baho’ that they can’t let her out. I was shocked..Her own family was also responsible for that abuse, she went into such deep depression that she lost it completely and nobody wanted to deal with it.
After couple of years of moving back to UK she started working again, met a very nice turkish guy married and have two kids, and very happy and SANE
Desi mentality is very ugly (sorry for very harsh words) when it comes to psychological issues.
One quick question: If she was a barrister in UK, why did she marry a crackpot? Don’t tell me she didn’t know. Anyone can tell if their in-laws are sane or uber conservative.