Disclaimer: Due to the sensitive nature of this post, I feel responsible and obligated to disclose that the opinions and words below are mine alone based on my personal life experiences. The featured image of this post is from ADAA.org. The Asian American community is a diverse one made up of individuals from a wide variety of different countries. You have East Asians, South Asians, and Pacific Islander Asians. Despite the vast spectrum of skin colors, languages, cultures, clothing, and food, there are 3 things that are slowly and silently killing the youth from these communities. Those are: comparison, competition,
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Comparison and competition leads us to this final killer: a lack of compassion, specifically a lack of compassion among each other in the Asian American community. Everyone is worried about themselves, no one has time to even be bothered about other people’s problems which when combined with feelings of self-doubt, unworthiness, loneliness, and the stress and need for success, all this can lead to some horrible repercussions. Yes, I will say it: mental disorders and flirting with the idea of committing suicide.