Cultural

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Growing up, I didn’t realize how much culture influences the way we think about mental health. It wasn’t until I began studying psychology, and later social work, that I started putting words to experiences I had lived with for years. I am the first person in my family to be born in the United States, making my parents and older siblings immigrants from other countries. My mother is Lithuanian, and I was raised speaking Lithuanian fluently. My father is Polish, although he al