Cubans take pride in facing hardship with resilience and ingenuity, but that fortitude comes at a high psychological cost amid the island's latest protracted crisis.

“Everything is chaotic,” she explains. “This current situation is so stressful and so uncertain that you don’t even know how to get through the day.”

For now, she says, therapy has helped her focus on what she can control.

“I have to learn how to deal with this environment that I can’t change right now.”

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