Personal stories:
Read Emily Wu Truong’s personal story about living with mental illness.
Watch our video of Elaine Peng telling her personal story about her daughter’s mental illness.
Watch our video of Roopa Grewal telling her personal story with Borderline Personality Disorder.
Articles:
“Asian Americans are undergoing a silent mental health crisis.”
Asian American Mental Health and the ‘Model Minority’ Myth
“Mental health is different for people of color in these 3 ways.” Article on Rest for Resistance from a South Asian perspective.
“Brown men don’t cry: How a culture of shame stops South Asian men talking about mental health”
Why Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders Don’t go to Therapy
How Being an Iranian Immigrant Affected My Mental Health
Resources:
Asian and Pacific Islander Resources on the EMM Resource Center
San Francisco Bay Area Chinese Community Depression Education Project
NAMI API Outreach Resource Manual
Have a resource, personal story, poem, artwork, or other content related to API mental health? Email Communications Coordinator Shireen Dada Whitaker at Shireen@namica.org