STRESS OF IMMIGRATION AND DISCRIMINATION A RISK FACTOR FOR SCHIZOPHRENIA?
My sz started in the US where I was a Green Card holder. I believe also that many immigrants do not seek any help when they have mental illness, because it may prevent them from gaining a citizenship or other immigration status. For example, in the form for applying the US citizenship there are questions if a person has received any mental health treatment.
You know you have mental illness but never visit a doctor because your afriad of not getting a citizenship?
I have not been in the US in 13 years. My US Green Card has expired and I do not need it any longer. Yes, my psz started in the US, I had even written down some mental health service numbers in Georgia 15 years ago. I am glad I am in the EU now.
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We have a lot of Mexicans in USA and they are afraid of contacting the authorities in any way.
They don’t want any kind of paper trail. I think the USA is trying to trick them with the get a social security number to get a tax refund. Well I don’t trust the government either, do you?
Getting a car title we helped a guy.
They later arrested him before amnesty went into affect. A lawyer wanted $5000 to help him.
He has a US citizen wife and 3 kids.
This is just not right. The USA belonged to Indians, so we’re all immigrants here.
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The government is very afraid of us as well. I find it’s the government freaking out about Mexico far more then average everyday people.
to me… this is quiet the level of paranoia about immigrant children.
My Grandfather got in to the U.S. through a work program in the 50’s and came in with legal papers.(no, not as a fruit picker) My Dad and Uncles were born here… I was born here… and when some police see me… I still get asked to show my green card. There was one police who was sure my SS# was a stolen identity.
I’ve never heard of immigration being linked to mental illness. But it’s something to look into.
I lived quite a normal life in the US close to 10 years, but then after the divorce I lived over two years in my auto around America. I was checked by cops over ten times while I lived in my auto. No police ever asked to see my green card or SS#, but they wanted to see the driver’s license. Once one police may have saved my life in Miami when he told me to vacate one parking lot because there was a group of some people in Miami and in the same area one person had been killed a week earlier. Once one police gave me 20 dollars because I had to leave my broken car in one parking lot at one night. Once there were five police cars watching me how I gathered coins dropped in one parking lot. Once one police in Miami woke me up in the middle of the night and checked my driver’s license and told that I was doing some research in my auto.
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