By a Chinese individual from Queens, NY Mental health was not a conversation topic in my home. Growing up with a single mom my whole life, I was eager to try dorm life and get a taste of the world outside our apartment. This one week away from home was the trigger for all the underlying mental health struggles and unspoken burdens that had built up. I took a gap year to assess the panic attacks I had experienced during […]
By Hang Ngo, Psy.D. A parent struggles to support her children’s remote education My children are attending school remotely again this new school year, and I feel stressed about their learning while balancing my own job from home. Both my husband and I work full-time. It’s been a struggle to make sure our children are learning as much as they should, when we couldn’t supervise them during all their virtual classes and homework, and my children are on their iPads […]
By Anqi Zhang To address residents’ concerns about the COVID-19 testing site on 116 Harrison Avenue, located inside Chinatown, the Office of Ed Flynn organized a Zoom meeting on Aug. 18 for different parties in the community. The site is welcoming students from two universities in the neighborhood. Attendees of the discussion included Chinatown residents and representatives from Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, and Emerson College. “I believe that we should have a robust conversation about neighbors’ […]
Author: A Chinese Individual from Worcester, MA I struggled with my mental health since I was in elementary school. Growing up, I was quiet and did not participate in many extracurricular activities. Most days I was alone but not lonely until my mom intervened by questioning why I had such a limited social life. This was the start of my anxiety that peaked in high school when one day a social worker came to the classroom and called my name. […]
33 year-old Chinese woman from Worcester lives with intermittent psychosis and schizophrenia I thought I was in control, but I wasn’t. The gripping schizophrenia and the intermittent psychosis were front and center in my experiences with everyday life. They were consuming the way I experienced reality, and they were calling the shots. I thought my life was going along perfectly fine in my early 20’s when I realized that I had mental illness. In the years after graduating from college, it […]
Mother struggles with son’s gay sexuality My son just told me that he is gay and we have been fighting about this. I think that he is young and confused, but he said that he’s known that he is gay for many years and that he is 20 years old, so he thinks he knows who he is. Did I do something wrong to make my son gay? How can I change him so he is not gay anymore? I […]
18-year-0ld Chinese female suffers from moderate depression and anxiety Thinking about it, no one will ever believe that I am suffering from moderate depression and anxiety since I always look so outgoing. I started having symptoms in high school, but was only diagnosed after the first semester in university when everything went downhill. Knowing the results, I was afraid, scared, I wanted to isolate myself from others since people are going to think I am a weirdo and hate me […]
By Dr. Xiaoduo Fan Several years ago when I was practicing psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, I noticed a pattern among the patients who came to see me – while I saw Asian patients in the ER or in an inpatient setting, rarely did I see them in an outpatient setting. When my team of researchers and I looked into this further, we found that in 2009 at MGH, non-Hispanic whites were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed […]
By Dr. Xiaoduo Fan Several years ago when I was practicing psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, I noticed a pattern among the patients who came to see me – while I saw Asian patients in the ER or in an inpatient setting, rarely did I see them in an outpatient setting. When my team of researchers and I looked into this further, we found that in 2009 at MGH, non-Hispanic whites were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed […]
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), America’s children need to get moving. A recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) of the last 30 years found that among children ages 2 to 5, obesity has doubled, while among 6- to 11-year-olds, it has tripled. Obesity can have a negative impact on health. Young people who are obese are at a higher risk for cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 diabetes. That’s why it […]
