What My Immigrant Dad Told Me About Mental Health | Denver
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0:00A: Woo! I’m tired. I’m tired just like all of y’all. Misaligned and unbalanced, letting air escape me. So I, just like all of you, have been trying to find alignment. Rotated our ways, and now we tread on what we breathe these days. When I ask my dad, what does it feel like to go through mental health as an immigrant right now? Do you know what he tells me? What? He says, son, restoration is a journey. It’s a journey of repairs and replacements. Some parts of me have to stay, and other parts of me, they have to change. But I am still the same vehicle. And how often do you throw your vehicle away?
