Parents

hi! i’m latina. luckily my mom is more open-minded about mental health than most hispanic parents but she still can be pretty frustrating about it. a lot of her advice amounts up to “pray” but i’m fortunate that she pushed me pretty hard to find therapy. as for how i opened up, i haven’t really. i don’t like to tell anyone the specifics of my themes, but i have been pretty frank about what ocd can be. i’ve told her about how it’s more than just contamination and there can harm and pocd subtypes. if you want to show her how it can feel like to have ocd, i would recommend this video https://youtu.be/HeYjDbRmAsM

I am not Latino, I am Swedish, and my mom has no real understanding but tries to understand, she wants to be supportive but doesn't honestly understand the whole thing

I am latina & it’s honestly really hard for me to open to my mom & dad as well about it. It’s always “ get over it “ & that i’m just being dramatic & etc. Which makes it harder for me, i try to explain it to them but then i know they’re going to look at me confused. I have tried before to explain it & all i get is the same responses. So i just don’t really open up to them about it, i get called picky.

I am latina, and to be honest it was hard bc they didnt quite understand what i was going thru they would just tell me "dont think that way" or blame it on something else (spouse, stress etc) it wasnt until i made my husband take me to get help at a mental health hospital. That my parents realized how serious it was and then i gave them the diagnosis, and they began to do their own research and they now sorta understand and try to help me thru it. But for the most part they are just supportive. Which is okay to me. I was just tired of them making me feel like i couldnt just get over it.