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Originally Posted by coleychi
This probably isn't relevant to my treatment... or maybe it is. I feel like it's mostly just my own curiosity.
Over the span of 5 years, I've been hospitalized 3 times (at 2 hospitals) and been to 2 different treatment centers. And at these places at those times, I never saw another Asian American. Granted, I'm third-generation and completely white-washed... my family just held onto the values of Asian culture. Are there any other Asian Americans on this forum? Has anyone ever seen another Asian American in treatment?
I wonder why that is. I kind of feel alone and ashamed that all other people from my background seem to be able to cope/be normal with emotions. Granted, I know that culturally, Chinese people are all about privacy and brushing all the unsavory things under the rug... but I feel so alone. I feel like all my Asian friends, and I guess Asians in general, are so much more adjusted than I am and I don't know what I did wrong.
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This is going to sound more ignorant than I mean it too, but: I'm white and I have a lot of Asian friends.
And my Asian friends don't come from families any less dysfunctional, but I do sense there is more sweeping under the rug.
My Canadian-born, of Chinese-descent, friend has wanted to go to therapy for a long time but was always conditioned to not seek that type of help. I wonder if there is something to fewer Asians getting the help that they need?
Another friend of mine, one of my closest, is a California girl whose parents are Vietnamese immigrants. She NEEDS therapy, but she'd never go because her parents wouldn't approve. She's in her mid-30s, but they have that much say over her life. I think white Americans are different that way.
Ok I'm shutting up now before I go painting stereotypes all over everyone!