“The Son Belongs to His Mother”: South Asian Daughters-in-Law and the Mental Health Toll of Family Hierarchy

• By: Vishwani Sahai-Siddiqui, MD The Cognitive Quill
• April 23rd, 2025
• cultural stigma, culture, emotional abuse, family, family hierarchy, immigrant, immigrant mental health, intergenerational trauma, mental health, South Asian, south asian mental health, south asian women
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In many South Asian families, a daughter-in-law doesn’t simply marry a husband—she marries into a hierarchy. Her entry into the household often marks a shift in family dynamics, especially where a deep, enmeshed mother-son bond is already in place. What may appear on the surface as generational...

Cyberbullying Studied at Four Winds

• By: Staff Writer Behavioral Health News
• July 1st, 2018
• adolescent mental health, bullying victimization, cyberbullying, depression, emotional abuse, psychiatric patients, social media impact, trauma symptoms
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While experiences of victimization are more common in clinical populations, and adolescent psychiatric patients have often been the objects of various forms of bullying, there is reason to believe that bullying via the internet may be particularly harmful for contemporary youths. The nature of...