Vivian Li didn’t realise she had ADHD until she was an adult \u2014 but that’s a common experience for many people in China.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When it comes to mental health, Nepalese migrant Reshma Manandhar is making sure her children are informed on the topic and feel comfortable asking for help.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s not a hidden subject for us.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Mrs Manandhar’s effort with her children was inspired by her own mental health challenge.<\/p>\n
She experienced postnatal depression after the family moved to Australia in 2002.<\/p>\n
Ms Manandhar said while children could access mental health support at school, migrant parents needed to “normalise” discussion.<\/p>\n
“A lot more work needs to be done to take that stigma out of the mental health issue in a non-English speaking, diaspora community,” she said.<\/p>\n
“We have to normalise it and say, ‘It’s OK, you can get help’.”<\/p>\n
Mrs Siu\u00a0agreed, adding that ADHD needed to be normalised in daily conversations, and not treated as something taboo or shameful.<\/p>\n
She said friends and family can also play a supportive role by speaking about neurodivergence in a positive light.<\/p>\n
To assist people with limited English language skills understand the signs and symptoms of mental health, AMES Australia has developed resources with Beyond Blue.<\/p>\n
The resources also help those working with migrants to identify when a new arrival is experiencing a mental health issue, not just culture shock.<\/p>\n
“It’s another part of the orientation to Australian society and then our health system,” said Lucia Halliburton from AMES, an organisation that helps migrants and others settle in Australia.<\/p>\n
“And it definitely signals that positive mental health and discussing mental health is not stigmatised in Australia,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in Hong Kong, Wing Siu worked nine to 12 hours a day. Like many other working mothers,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[2012,46666,64648,16314,2766,1301,64647,11662,2266,390,105,17955,2772,218,32635,64650,22473,29738,64649,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-151508","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-adhd","9":"tag-attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder","10":"tag-barrier","11":"tag-child","12":"tag-culture","13":"tag-depression","14":"tag-developmental","15":"tag-disorder","16":"tag-education","17":"tag-family","18":"tag-health","19":"tag-immigrant","20":"tag-language","21":"tag-mental-health","22":"tag-migrant","23":"tag-parent","24":"tag-stigma","25":"tag-support","26":"tag-taboo","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114612559328916501","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}