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72-Hour Hold: Part 5

The 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 patients and nurses walk right by me, careful not to...

Ask a Model Min... | Tue, Jul 3rd- 12:59am | 5150, Blogger Column, depression, family, intergenerational conflict, Marin General, mental health, model minority, overachievement, suicide, Ask a Model Minority Suicide, Social Issues

72-Hour Hold: Part 4

I 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 of sudden hellos.

Ask a Model Min... | Tue, Jul 3rd- 12:40am | 5150, Blogger Column, depression, family, intergenerational conflict, Marin General, mental health, model minority, overachievement, suicide, Ask a Model Minority Suicide, Social Issues

72-Hour Hold: Part 3

There 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 counts against you to sleep the day away. There are...

Ask a Model Min... | Tue, Jul 3rd- 12:28am | 5150, Blogger Column, depression, family, intergenerational conflict, Marin General, mental health, model minority, overachievement, suicide, Ask a Model Minority Suicide, Social Issues

72-Hour Hold: Part 2

I 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, functional and even comfortable. People wear them,...

Ask a Model Min... | Tue, Jul 3rd- 12:21am | 5150, Blogger Column, depression, family, intergenerational conflict, Marin General, mental health, model minority, overachievement, suicide, Ask a Model Minority Suicide, Social Issues

72-Hour Hold: Part 1

I 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 own vehicle, which is parked a distance away,...

Ask a Model Min... | Tue, Jul 3rd- 10:45pm | 5150, Blogger Column, depression, family, Golden Gate Bridge, intergenerational conflict, mental health, model minority, overachievement, suicide, Ask a Model Minority Suicide, Social Issues
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