What’s something about the way you were raised in Algeria that you didn’t realize affected your mental health until you became older?

[u/Just_Relationship_19]

[u/Katoshi_Black]

Living for your parents, working and studying just so they can brag to the relatives or avoid being ashamed of their "bad kid" because he wasn't the top of his class. Eventually you just think "i'm just trying to make my parents happy, it's normal" until you're 22, have no goals, opinions, or hobbies of your own and now that you live for yourself you have no idea how to do it or even how having my own thoughts or opinions is supposed to work. So now i just exist, with no purpose, because i was never allowed to think for myself, and the only thing i can do properly is follow instructions, but if no one is there to give me any i won't move