Yvonne Liu: For kids who grew up like me, Netflix’s ‘Maid’ is hard to watch — but necessary. - NBCNewsTHINK
Relaxing on my bed in suburban Detroit, I was absorbed in yet another escapist novel from the library when my mother suddenly barged into my room. Her face was filled with a familiar madness as she grabbed my arm and dragged me toward the full-length mirror in the master bedroom. She had shears in one hand as she screamed hysterically and began hacking away at my waist-long hair.
Mom grabbed a patch of the hair that people had called “black silk” and shrieked, “Frame this for memory.” that require treatment. Compared to their peers, they are twice as likely to be abused and more than twice as likely to be placed in foster care than other childrenI never went into foster care, but like so many children who grow up in homes with mentally ill parents, I continue to endure the reverberations of years of emotional and physical abuse. After years of being screamed at by my mother, I avoided conflict at all costs, giving in too easily in my personal and professional relationships.
According to the National Institutes of Health, nearly 20 percent of adults in the U.S. live with a mental illness . In my traditional Chinese American family, we put on a good show and never spoke about mental illness openly. It was considered shameful, and my mother didn’t get adequate treatment because of that belief.
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