From Mad in South Asia: Sangji uses one woman’s story to show that emotional distress in Pakistan is shaped by patriarchy, poverty, trauma, and history, challenging individualised psychiatric diagnoses while advocating culturally grounded, systemic understandings of mental health. Laila’s Story: ‘I don’t know what’s wrong with me.’
She was in her late thirties, neatly dressed, her posture careful in the chair in my therapy room. Laila did not say she was depressed. She did not tell me that she thought she had anxiety. She did not use any psychological language at all. Funny, given that she was in a psychologist’s office.
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