Hello beautiful people! In today's episode, I interview the wonderful Michelle Wang, host of CKUT's "Panacea" podcast that focuses on mental health. This interview marks the beginning of the "identity" segment on Joy, which focuses on how different identities, such as age, race, and sexuality, impact the ways that people seek out and experience joy. We discuss the difficulties of growing up as an immigrant and wanting to assimilate, the model minority myth, the conversion of mental states into somatic symptoms, the misconception of happiness as a forever state, and more! I hope you have a wonderful weekend, and tune in every Friday at 12pm for more!
Link to Michelle's "Panacea" podcast:
https://ckut.ca/spokenword/panacea-mental-health-101/
Sources Used
- Lee, Summin, et al. “Model Minority at Risk: Expressed Needs of Mental Health by Asian American Young Adults.” Journal of Community Health, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Apr. 2009, pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18931893/.
- “Mental Health among Asian-Americans.” American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, 2012, www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/asian-american/article-mental-health.
- Proctor, Hanna. “A Review of Subjective Well-Being in Asian Americans.” Western Washington University, 2020, cedar.wwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1377&context=wwu_honors.
- Spencer, Michael S, et al. “Discrimination and Mental Health-Related Service Use in a National Study of Asian Americans.” American Journal of Public Health, U.S. National Library of Medicine, Dec. 2010, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2978178/.
