Being an Asian American, I think it makes it even more difficult to talk about mental illnesses because of our traditional cultures, how we are raised, the model minority myth, or just in general not being taught to talk about our feelings. I know most Asian families don’t believe in mental illnesses, or they’re in denial, or uneducated about it, or there are families who don’t believe we need medications. There’s so much stigma around mental illnesses, or Asians feeling ashamed that they need to hide it and stay silent.
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I have struggled with anxiety and depression for last couple of years. I am at a much better place now and have learnt and continue to learn better ways to cope with it.
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I was not happy a lot of the time. I also was not the best behaved student at school, as I was constantly getting into trouble and sent to the office.
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My name is Jessie and I am a Mental Health Warrior.
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My experience with depression and bipolar disorder first started at the age of 15 when I was a freshman in high school. Around that time I first started to experience suicidal thoughts.
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When I was in 7th grade I started experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression due to struggles that my family was having at the time.
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My life isn’t perfect, it has never been and it will never be. It goes up and down like waves in an infinite sea.
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On March 3rd, 2014, I made a decision that would change my life forever.
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Depression began pretty early in my life, but nobody around me was aware of how I was feeling and I found it hard to express my thoughts and feelings.
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My illness began at nineteen years old. This was the first time I experienced my depression.
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I was just entering my Freshman year of high school and I was homeschooled at the time (it was a brief four month stint. I won’t get into it).
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I've always known that something wasn't quite right with the way my brain functioned.
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My experience with mental illness really started around my freshman year of high school around thirteen years old.
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My experience with mental illness started around twelve years old, when I was in the sixth grade. It started out quite small with simple comparisons between myself and the girls around my age.
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My experience with Anxiety and Depression started around 7 years ago when I was 14. At the time I was living with an alcoholic mother in an unstable home. There were a lot of fights between my mother and my step dad.
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I suffer from PTSD, anxiety, and have had eating disorders as well. As a child I was sexually assaulted and bullied consistently through public school.
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The past four years have been pure hell. I faced a battle of depression, social anxiety, low self esteem, and self confidence brought on by the diagnosis of Premature Ovarian Failure.
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I had always been an anxious child, but I was not diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder until I was 15.
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I was diagnosed bipolar type 2 in 2009, as well as PTSD, C-PTSD, panic disorder w/o agoraphobia, anxiety, and ADHD. I've also been fighting chronic migraines since 1999.
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My anxiety and problems handling stress started sometime during high school. I also have struggled with accepting and handling my emotions since I was fairly young.
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