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Ask a Model Minority Suicide: Hello
icon_crop.jpgI don’t claim to be dead. But I do feel a bit Ghost of Christmas Future, cropping up to show you your options -- because if you’re the person I’m trying to reach, then this future is an...
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'Too Asian?': Responding to the Question
icon_crop.jpgSo I know I said it'd be four weeks until the second AAMMS post, but...read more
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Resource Guide
icon_crop.jpgHello, reader. The below is a work-in-progress: starter dough and nothing like a full list. But hopefully this opening gambit will inspire those with further information to add their...
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72-Hour Hold: Part 1
icon_crop.jpgI try to hide my hands. Black-haired parents with little children wide-eyed as I am led to the car, cuffed behind my back. At least he is kind and asks another cop to give us a ride to his...
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72-Hour Hold: Part 2
icon_crop.jpgI am given two sets of light blue pajamas, cotton pants and short-sleeve shirt with snap buttons, and except for the Marin General Hospital printed on the pocket, they’re not unattractive,...
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72-Hour Hold: Part 3
icon_crop.jpgThere is a breakfast call at around 7 a.m., but I ask my roommate for the time and decline the meal, telling the staff that I don’t eat breakfast. By 8 a.m. I am up though, because it...
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72-Hour Hold: Part 4
icon_crop.jpgI did not want to attend Group Therapy, strongly averse to the idea of sharing personal information (even if strategically fictionalized) with the shufflers and hunchers, the lounging men...
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72-Hour Hold: Part 5
icon_crop.jpgThe phone is in as visible an area as there is, and I am petrified that crying will make me seem unstable, prove that I am only faking, and they will keep me now even longer, but even as...
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Letters from Readers: 'My Self-Preservation, or How I Got to These Thirties'
icon_crop.jpgThis month's AAMMS post was submitted as a comment from a reader. Since I'm not doing this alone -- this column is about collective wisdom -- I'm going to be featuring readers' stories...
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How to Choose Your Therapist
icon_crop.jpgIt’s perfectly normal to meet several therapists before deciding on one with whom you feel a good rapport. As with dating, “that didn’t suck” is not a high enough bar.read more
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Deciding Not to Bail
icon_crop.jpgIn honor of Asian Pacific American Mental Health Day, AAMMS revisits its roots and considers the impact of a mantra like "It Gets Better."read more
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Remembering Danny
25.dannychen_corkylee.wreath.jpg A funeral wreath encircles a photo of Chen on top of the hearse at his funeral on October 13, 2011. Photography by Corky Lee. Memorializing a US Army private whose...
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David Phan's Suicide Sparks Grief, Anger and Call for Justice
davidage7.jpg"I had a great life but I must leave." These were the last words written by David Q. Phan, a 14-year-old Vietnamese American junior high school student from Taylorsville, Utah, before he...
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