As the global emergency surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic ended last year, directors at Self-Help for the Elderly, an agency serving San Francisco’s Asian American community, figured seniors would ...
One in four people will experience mental illness during their lifetime, according to the World Health Organization. This statistic is troubling, given that mental illness is a leading cause of ...
Language barriers are a major obstacle to accessing mental health care for those in the US who have difficulty communicating in English. But despite increasing demand, mental health services in Asian ...
On a recent weekend, half a dozen people joined an evening Zoom call to play a game of trivia, switching between Mandarin and English as they guessed answers to Halloween-themed questions. The group — ...
Mental health issues in the Asian American community persist following a rise in hate crimes during the pandemic, researchers and advocates say, but few seek help, and those who do can’t find ...
When Colleen Nguyen was 17, she asked her mom to fill out a consent form so Colleen could attend therapy. Her mother got “so upset,” worrying her signature meant having her daughter committed to a ...
“I’m sorry, but I can’t do this anymore.” Neha was 20 years old and identified as Indian American. She had come to me to help her process her relationship with her family, particularly her mother, and ...
Asian entrepreneurs are uniquely affected by highly stressful working conditions. The challenges that Asian entrepreneurs often experience include the weight of depression, long working hours, lack of ...
"He started saying, 'Go back to China,' and started spitting all over me." Crisanna Tang, a New York-based health care worker, was just on her way to work. "A man got on the train without a mask," ...