Dr Justin Chen teaches at Harvard and is a staff psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital.
He listed the five top mental health myths in the Chinese American community in Sampan.
They are:
–Having a mental illness means you’re crazy
–People with psychiatric illnesses are more violent than other people
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–Mental illness is a Western phenomenon
–People with psychiatric problems just need to work harder, or must have done something wrong in a previous life
–There are no treatments for mental illnesses
You can read his explanation about each of these myths as well as an interesting anecdote in Sampan.
