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This story is part of Silent Battles our reporting project with that focuses on the mental health of immigrant, refugee and asylum communities in the U.S. We begin in Chicago, a city founded by a Haitian immigrant that has the fourth-largest immigrant population in the country.

Did you know that MindSite News is the ONLY independent national newsroom dedicated to comprehensive mental health reporting? You can count on our reporters to keep telling the stories that inform and empower readers about mental health issues, and to hold those in power accountable for the decisions they make that impact mental health care and policies. This type of journalism is an increasingly rare public service, particularly when it comes to mental health news. Will you help support MindSite News — and mental health awareness? Your gift today will be matched dollar-for-dollar. https://buff.ly/3TuFZTL

Grief needs a witness. Telling the story of what happened after the loss of a child is crucial to eventual acceptance and to the ability to live with the absence of the person, says Katherine Shear, the founding director of the Center for Prolonged Grief at the Columbia University School of Social Work. But for generations of American men, grief – with its stew of sadness, yearning and powerlessness – was something to bury, to mask with stoicism, or to avoid with work, even if it came at great cost to mental health. https://buff.ly/4eIsjfQ This article was reported and first published by Harvard Public Health magazine.

"The answer to anything like the model minority myth is not abundance, it’s actually enoughness. You are enough. You deserve food, shelter, water, love, dignity based on your enoughness because you’re human, not because of the things that you do and the ways that you are." - Hyeseung Song Read writer Melissa Hung's interview with artist Hyeseung Song about her recent memoir Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl on mental health.

Youth leaders at a high school outside Pittsburgh are working to bolster each other by creating a caring, supportive atmosphere -- at a time when 40% of high school students are experiencing persistent feelings of hopelessness. The students have a big job. New research has found that areas where large numbers of youth reported feeling hopeless generally had fewer community assets including health services, transportation options and educational centers. The research also identified “bright spots” within the region, suggesting that some neighborhoods can transcend historic barriers to mental health resources. This story was originally reported and published by PublicSource. https://buff.ly/4eKexcu

If you’re not on TikTok, you may not have heard of dissociative identity disorder (DID) before now. What’s surprising to some of us, however, is that it is a mental illness that was first diagnosed centuries ago. Today the medical history of dissociative identity disorder is interwoven with its media representation.

Ahead of the November 5 election, we reported that many immigrants in the U.S. were feeling fearful and demoralized about the prospects of Trump returning to power. Today, millions of people without documents — many of who have U.S.-born children — are asking themselves, “What are we going to do now?” We will continue to report on this critical issue in the weeks, months and years ahead.

MindSite News reporter Astrid Landon shares a compelling report on young people’s fixation with dissociative identity disorder and the boom of content surrounding the disorder on TikTok. This report takes a look at the need for community that many have found on the platform and gives voice to teens sharing their stories first hand. It also presents the views of experts who question the massive presence of such a rare condition – and of others who see new potential for online education.