API Mental Health: Let’s Stop Talking Taboos and Start Talking Racism
By: Jen Soriano (@lionswrite) Editor’s Note: As of May 22, 2018 the author has modified this essay to include more Native…
Tag: Depression
Rae Na Lee, ’19, is Second Student Death at Yale in Past Week
In a message circulated late yesterday to members of the Yale University community, Yale University dean of students Jonathan Holloway…
Zayn Malik opened up about his anxiety. Here’s why that matters.
By Guest Contributor: Lakshmi Gandhi (@LakshmiGandhi) It’s been a whirlwind fifteen months for Zayn Malik, the suave tenor who first…
Lawsuit Alleges School Didn’t Stop Bullying That Led To Girl’s Suicide Death | #ActToChange
Nearly a year after 13-year-old Emilie Olsen was found dead of an apparent suicide, her parents have filed a federal…
The New York Times Doubles Down On Its Erasure of AAPI Student Victims of Suicide
When we were freshmen first entering Cornell, an older student told Snoopy in a dubious effort to introduce us to the…
Why is the New York Times Rendering the Suicide Deaths of Asian American Students Invisible?
This post was written with input and inspiration from Snoopy. Yesterday, the New York Times profiled Kathryn DeWitt, a young University…
Asian American Student Suicide Rate at MIT is Quadruple the National Average
Regular readers of this blog will know that mental health, depression and suicide within the Asian American community is a topic…
May 3: The Overlooked Battle Against Depression and Suicide Among SE Asian Americans | #APAHM2015 #ReappropriateRevisited
For this year’s AAPI Heritage Month, I will take each day to pull one of my favourite posts or pieces from the…
Yale mourns death of Luchang Wang ’17 by apparent suicide
The Yale student community was rocked last night with news that sophomore Luchang Wang, ’17 — mathematics major and member of…
Obama advisor & director of WH Initiative on #AAPI shares family history of mental illness | #MentalHealth
The statistics on mental health in the Asian American community are staggering, if well-known to regular readers of this blog: Asian…
LGBTQ Native/Pacific Islander youths (aged 13-18) most likely to self-harm, attempt suicide
A new study published two months ago in the American Journal of Public Health delves for the first time into the…
May 10 is #AAPIMentalHealth Awareness Day: Let’s talk about on-campus depression & suicide | #APAHM2014
Jiwon Lee was a fourth-year dental student at Columbia University and president of Columbia’s American Student Dental Association. This past April, she took…