Umm-al-Dhegdheeriyaa
Run and I’ll catch you and eat you alive
I’m pretty sure there are so many posts like this but I thought I’d add to them anyways.
Somali parents, not all of course, don’t really bother to look at a child’s mental health in anyway whatsoever. They’d rather a child be having excellent grades while in education, appear to be religious on the outside and well respected in the community. There are so many Somali kids, teens and those in their early 20s that act out in some cases to amend for how their heartless parents won’t listen to them.
And as soon as they began to mentally be exhausted, or even the kid tells them that they are depressed, they ignore it or suspect that you might be possessed in some way or another. Having depression, for instance, is shameful to them(tbh being sick in anyway is a big taboo).
I swear to God half the time the kids are depressed because of their parents crazy expectations on top of societies expectations.
Somali parents, not all of course, don’t really bother to look at a child’s mental health in anyway whatsoever. They’d rather a child be having excellent grades while in education, appear to be religious on the outside and well respected in the community. There are so many Somali kids, teens and those in their early 20s that act out in some cases to amend for how their heartless parents won’t listen to them.
And as soon as they began to mentally be exhausted, or even the kid tells them that they are depressed, they ignore it or suspect that you might be possessed in some way or another. Having depression, for instance, is shameful to them(tbh being sick in anyway is a big taboo).
I swear to God half the time the kids are depressed because of their parents crazy expectations on top of societies expectations.