Mental Illness Issues

Dowling Degos Disease and the Cyberbully

On Saturday, a person tried to humiliate me by sending a brief message through my personal email account. The message was simple, characteristic of the small mind that sent it: a picture of me in a less than favorable light, with language referring to my face, “not good, bad, bad.” I suffer from a rare…

Migratory Bird

I crossed the glass doors of the Pearson International Airport in Toronto twenty years ago today, tugging along my two children, six suitcases and a load of hope. The stamp on my Landed Immigrant document marks the beginning of our new life, an ongoing migration journey for me.   Preparing for that trip took everything…

Clínica Tepati, Sacramento

Clínica Tepati, in Sacramento, was founded in 1974 to provide basic health care to Xicanx and Latinx without health insurance. Completely run by undergraduate students of UC Davis, Tepati has now expanded to provide legal services, advocacy, and community resources. Its medical services now include pharmaceutical and mental health services.   The current clinic has…