For many young Iranian who are born elsewhere than Iran, it is important to explore our own culture as a main key to our identity. We Iranian live in an exaggerated world, with many extremes to handle at once. We are stuck in many ways and we are tired of being oppressed. We know ourselves…
Category: Emotional Health
Our health is intertwined with Emotion Regulation and Education.
Trust or Mistrust
Can we Trust or Do we Mistrust? A Canadian friend asked me why Iranian men are suspicious of their wives? I said: “not all of them acting this way.” This woman being a psychologist added: “Most of those men come to my office; they are all concerned that their wives would cheat on them.” We…
Defining our Healthy Identity
Healthy Identity is something that we need more than ever. Why? Counselling and psychotherapy is rarely utilized in the Iranian culture; however more and more individuals are finding interest to get to know their inner world and the self. Iranian value education highly and they would pay for learning new skills and new professions. Education…
Our Mothers Recycling Business
Our mothers knew about Recycling Business long before us. How? Read this. Culture is the sum of behaviours, thoughts, perceptions, ideas, life styles, events, habits, and knowledge that are shared among a group of people. One of those shared ideas is the everyday life of people, the implicit and the explicit form of it, the…
Mental health issues and Depression
In our Iranian culture In those old good days, our Iranian culture considered depression being a “luxury illness”, something just for the “rich people” who were tired of all the privileges in life and did not know what to do next!” a type of illness just for the upper middle class ! Now we know…