Dil Ki Recipes
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People of South Asian Heritage, meet your Desi Counselor. Dr. Sheeza Mohsin uncovers the core issues individuals, couples, and families struggle with when they feel torn between tradition, culture, and their current beliefs. Tune in as she helps guide you to being a healthier version of yourself while creating wholesome relationships.
To learn more, visit: https://www.dilkirecipes.com/
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The podcast explores themes of mental health, relationship challenges, and cultural identity among South Asians, with episodes covering topics such as goal setting in the New Year, intercultural familial conflicts, issues of infidelity, and the complexities of growing up as a South Asian in America. Each episode offers practical advice and insights relevant to the audience's experiences.
People of South Asian Heritage, meet your Desi Counselor. Dr. Sheeza Mohsin uncovers the core issues individuals, couples, and families struggle with when they feel torn between tradition, culture, and their current beliefs. Tune in as she helps guide you to being a healthier version of yourself while creating wholesome relationships.
To learn more, visit: https://www.dilkirecipes.com/
In the newest episode of Dil Ki Recipes, Dr. Sheeza Mohsin sits with Dr. Umar Latif (triple board-certified in psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and addiction medicine) to discuss mental health challenges in the South Asian/Desi immigrant community.
The episode covers topics from cognitive dissonance between outward success and inner struggles, generational trauma, cultural stigma around mental health, the intersection of faith and psychiatry, addiction as a brain illness, men’s mental health, and the sandwich generation caring for both children and aging parents with dementia.
🌐 Connect with Dr. Latif: https://noesisclinic.com/ | https://www.linkedin.com/in/umarlatifmd/
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
3:10 – Challenges in South Asian community: cognitive dissonance, achievement culture
4:50 – How cultural values perpetuate emotional disconnection
6:00 – Intergenerational trauma: mothers perpetuating misogynistic patterns
7:30 – FOMO culture and social anxiety across generations
8:00 – Teen suicide crisis: social media impact and mental health
9:30 – Intersection of faith, spirituality, and psychiatry
10:30 – Why spirituality matters in healing (bio-psychosocial-spiritual model)
12:00 – The problem with confusing religious leaders with mental health professionals
13:50 – Overcoming family resistance to psychiatric medication
15:00 – Biology of mental illness explained (functional impairment)
17:00 – Addiction as brain illness (not moral failure)
18:00 – Process addictions: work, food, porn, gaming, people-pleasing
19:30 – Dopamine and the neuroscience of addiction loops
20:30 – Love addiction and trauma bonding in abusive relationships
21:00 – Fight, flight, freeze, and fawning / culturally rewarded trauma response
22:00 – Toxic masculinity vs. good men underrepresented in mental health
23:00 – Creating safe spaces for men to be vulnerable
24:30 – Loneliness epidemic in high-achieving men (health impacts)
26:00 – Sandwich generation: caring for aging parents and children
26:30 – Early detection of dementia and mild cognitive impairment
27:30 – Caregiver burden, guilt, and anticipatory grief
29:00 – Elder abuse and role reversal in dementia care
30:00 – When to seek psychiatric help immediately (safety concerns)
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