Psychology Today | 05.05.2026 04:54
A young Iranian woman came into my office carrying what she called a heaviness she could not explain. Anahita — I will call her that — was 35, the daughter of Iranian parents who had left Tehran before she was born. She had trouble sleeping. She said she felt as though something had been torn inside her. Not grief exactly, though grief was there. Not fear, though fear was present too. Something else. A feeling that the world had broken a promise she had not even known she had trusted.
