Think your parents need therapy? These women convinced their moms to try it out.
Baby boomers are less likely to seek mental health services than Gen Zers and millennials (iStock; Lily illustration)
Apr. 13, 2021
Christina Sturdivant Sani, a 34-year-old living in the D.C. area, has been going to therapy since 2017. For years, she and her brothers had been suggesting that their mother, Helena Sturdivant, who is in her 50s, also talk to someone.
Helena, who is the youngest of six siblings there is a 20-year gap between her and her oldest sister said some of her older family members grew up in a “hush-hush” environment where issues were “bottled up.”