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 […]

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 […]