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The barriers caused by shame and stigma are well-documented. According to the Asian Journal of Social Psychology, only about a quarter of Asian Americans who have been diagnosed with psychological problems seek treatment, compared more than half of the general population.

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Mental illness stigma magnified in Chinese culture It took two more episodes before she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The following year, she moved to Regina, where she experienced a manic episode and was admitted to a psychiatric ward. She visited the hospital many times, and was passed from doctor to doctor without answers. And, like her grandmother, she withdrew from people.īy late 2016, Mak Harrison was experiencing "racing" suicidal thoughts. She slept too much but never felt rested. She was in junior high school when she first noticed symptoms of depression. Mental illness was never an open topic among her Chinese family members, but neither was it a stranger in their lives.

  • Are you a Chinese-Canadian with an experience with mental health you'd like to share? Contact reporter Florence Hwang at Harrison, 23, was raised by her Chinese father and identifies more with that side of the family.
  • Since there's a tradition of suppressing emotions to achieve harmonious relationships at all costs, it can worsen mental health and create barriers to accessing help. Chinese-Canadians living with mental illness tend to face stigma and shame because of cultural perceptions and pressures. She spoke to family members less.Įxpressing emotions is not encouraged in the Mak family. Mak Harrison said her grandmother was lost when he died.

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    She turned on the TV so he could watch the news. She steamed chicken wings for his dinners. Mak Harrison, who is half Inuk and half Chinese, recalled a woman devoted to her husband. When there were bets on the table, she kicked our butts. "She was pretty happy when we were playing with her. It didn't take long for Mak Harrison to learn her grandmother was a "mahjong shark."

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    The shuffling and clacking of domino-like tiles reminds Kayla Mak Harrison of when her late grandmother and her friends taught her how to play mahjong, a Chinese tabletop game.

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    Warning: This story deals with mental illness, including mention of suicide. And no staring at my ass crack.You can read a version of this story in Chinese here.

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    Now, if you’ll excuse me, I gotta get my hard hat and tool belt back on, and get my head back under the kitchen sink. It ain’t just writing, it’s writing what you gotta and not just what you want. So I hope you’ll excuse the stagnant blog and my tweet embargo and my barely flickering Facebook presence. In other words, I’ve been having fun when I got chores to do. Instead of nailing this rewrite to the floorboards and ripping its throat out, I’ve posted maybe 10,000 words worth of blog blather, a couple zillion tweets, knocked out a two flash fiction pieces and sent 3G worth of noir over to the Crimefactory folk. So what has this got to do with too much writing? And meanwhile, Crime Uber Agent Stacia Decker is over in the corner with the impatient evil eyes making snippy comments about more caffeine and less sleep. You think oh, a fireplace would be nice over there, then you realize that’s a load bearing wall, so if you’re gonna rip any of that out, then you got to tie in to this wall over here, except that’s where the plumbing runs up to the master bath, so you’re gonna have to tear out the main waste line, and pretty soon you’re covered in plaster dust and shit water and surrounded by broken bits of lathe.īut the longer it goes on, the longer you’re gonna be taking sponge bathes out of the laundry sink. And it is kicking my ass on account of rewriting just ain’t as much fun as writing. I shouldn’t assume my condition reflects that of the writing world at large. And the key symptom of that may be writing too much. Hard at work in rewrite hellSome weeks back, I carried on a bit about writer’s block, pontificating on how we have a choice to write or not write, but that the various excuses we raise to not write are basically bullshit used to dodge the fact that we just didn’t care enough to park our asses in a chair and crank out some copy.īut there’s a more insidious condition lurking – project block.









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