Deep dives into the intersection of mental health, immigration, and systemic oppression. Click any article to read the full piece.
The Third Generation Crisis No One's Talking About
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | March 2025
Psychiatric risk increases from 17% in first-generation immigrants to 50% by the third generation. Your grandchildren are three times more likely to face mental health challenges than you are.
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Your Parents Aren't Toxic, They're Traumatized
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | February 2025
Stop applying Western individualism to families that survived through collectivism. Here's the boundary conversation that actually works with immigrant parents.
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Stop Calling It Imposter Syndrome When It's Actually Systemic Gaslighting
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | January 2025
You're not an imposter—you're responding accurately to systems that constantly question your belonging. Stop calling yourself an imposter and start calling the system what it is: terrified of your power.
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Free Therapy for Everyone Isn't Radical, It's Necessary
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | December 2024
Charging people to process trauma caused by capitalism is like charging them for bandages after you push them down the stairs. Here's the economic model that actually makes sense.
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The Myth of "Making It" - Success Survivor's Syndrome
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | April 2025
You become your family's American Dream and it's killing you. Too successful to be relatable, not successful enough to change systems. The impossible math of immigrant success.
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Academic Trauma Is Real - And It's Killing Immigrant Kids
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | February 2025
"Why B+? Why not A+?" is funny until you're 32, having panic attacks about email typos. What academic pressure actually does to immigrant children's nervous systems.
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When Your Parents Think Therapy Is for "Crazy People"
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | March 2025
"We don't air our laundry in public. Prayer is enough. Just be stronger." Here's why your parents are terrified of therapy and the scripts that actually work to change their minds.
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Code-Switching Is Killing Us - The Mental Health Cost of Being a Chameleon
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | January 2025
Professional voice for meetings, cultural voice for mom, assimilated voice for Brad. Code-switching isn't just exhausting—it's fragmenting our psyche. Third generation psychiatric risk of 50%? This is why.
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Your Activism Burnout Isn't Personal - It's Systemic
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | December 2024
From sharing infographics to organizing protests to lying in bed unable to move. The system counts on your burnout—it's not a bug, it's a feature. Here's how to build sustainable resistance.
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Why I Organize at Protests and Practice in Therapy Rooms
By Maheen Chranya, MSW | November 2024
"Isn't that inappropriate? Mixing politics with mental health?" Pretending mental health is apolitical IS political. You cannot separate anxiety from ICE raids, depression from poverty wages, or therapy from liberation.
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