EP2: Mental Health & Queerness within the Desi Community (ft. Somaya)

Mental Health in the South Asian community is STILL extremely taboo. The lack of conversation around it personally made me feel stuck while growing up. I had NO idea what was going on and if what I was experiencing was "normal". I didn't know who to speak to or what to even say to express myself because I didn't grow up with the verbiage to discuss this kind of topic. Growing up and understanding that what I thought was “stress cleaning” was actually OCD and my “feeling down, like I’m in a funk” was actually called depression, I wish I would’ve known those words earlier.

Not giving the tools to kids to discuss how they feel can make them feel very alone and detached while growing up. Come listen to artist, Somaya, and I talk about out Mental Health journeys and how we established our needs in households that otherwise didn't speak of mental health.