Frosty Blue: I thought you brought up a good point in the other thread. I will copy your post here. This issue has affected my family, and my mother's own ability to get help for issues between my brothers because of cultural expectations. Also, the level of treatment required deeper spiritual therapy where medication was not going to solve the problems.
1. I see these manifestations of mental illness as having a "spiritual cause" first and foremost.
If you look at Asian families, there tends to be cultural trends of strong respect for the parents and elders passed down from generation to generation. As long as there is strong spiritual connection and continuity, the family tends to be healthy and strong (and prosperous by investing in each other as a family and/or community).
In cases of black families that have severed connections in the past, including descendants of slaves where genocide even wiped out their identity, there can be repressed anger and oppression that can affect subsequent generations before fully healing. The ministerial community has recognized the need to address the inbred problem of black self-hatred, black on black violence, and "not investing financially" in the black community.
The cycle of oppression and poverty, weakens relations and community, and affects mental and physical health. Conditions of abuse or oppression were shown in studies to manifest in the DNA, thus passing down genetically.
Recently I was told not only were blacks inbred like property to produce more slaves, but also Irish slaves were cross bred with black slaves in order to mark them by skin color. So this could also explain why the inbred hatred or fear between some whites and blacks carried in their spirit. It takes many generations to heal such karma.
2. As for public and media perceptions, I also notice a difference in response to shooting cases that involve an Asian shooter. The Virginia Tech case and the school shooting in California are two that were visible in the media. The general perception was that these "had to be mentally ill" and the disease was blamed.
When the shooters are black, then this brings up all kinds of issues of race and criminals. I don't see the same consideration for blacks as being mentally ill.
I noticed in the Cho case, that the university counted Cho as one of the victims of the school shooting. it helped with the healing for the sister of Cho to apologize and reach out and cooperate with the families and authorities.
3. As for Asians getting help for mental illness. Because of the stigma among the Asians in getting help, how can we even know how prevalent conditions are if families keep these suppressed?
I think more cases become visible in America in a culture that is more open. In my family, the problems with my family were already there but suppressed. Not until this generation was born in America, did all the issues comes out. Again i see it as spiritual conflicts carried generationally, and the manifestation is an expression of those.
by Frosty BlueYou know the real interesting thing is that you never hear about mental disorders in asians, let alone psychopathy. Only suicide really. They say the MAOA gene is most common in blacks and less common in asians with whites in the center, I wonder why.
My abnormal psych class went into this idea briefly as well.
You can't properly diagnose someone who doesn't seek help, and some cultures are less likely to explore what ways they exhibit weakness, let alone let their issues become something others might find out. A census can only be so accurate, especially once the ideas of "pride" and "shame" jumps into the equation.
Culture in general also influences trends for what people will and won't believe related to psychology, which is likely to affect diagnosis likelihoods as well.
by Thrill KillThere are some movies that have some pretty good rape scenes in them. Two off the top of my head are:
The Last House On The Left and I Spit On Your Grave (the 2010 remake)
but they don't have any Asians in them.
http://www.beyondhollywood.com/missing-2009-movie-review/
here TK ^ this was South Korean. later warned their movies are a bit more hardcore. like dark dark
I haven't seen too many Asian movies, but I do know that Asians make some of the best torture movies.
There's one in particular that's really good, but I can't think of the name of it at the moment.
Here's a non-Asian movie if you can handle watching the torture:
August Underground is also pretty good:
