Medicated for your Protection – Portraits of Mental Illness LIMITED ...
Medicated for your Protection – Portraits of Mental Illness LIMITED ...
Medicated for your Protection – Portraits of Mental Illness LIMITED ...
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Dai, 48, comes from Vietnam and has lived in Harbor View <strong>for</strong>one year. He shared these details about his life. In 1986, his familyobtained illegal passports and moved to the United States to escapeCommunism. “That’s when I started having psychological problems,at 23.” Dai learned to speak English in a refugee camp in thePhilippines. He has fourteen brothers and sisters, some <strong>of</strong> whomstayed in Vietnam. Dai <strong>of</strong>ten longs <strong>for</strong> a girlfriend he had at 18. “Istill love her, want to hold her, and I’d marry her if she was available,but I think she’s married now.” Dai’s goals are to become adisc jockey, teach ESL classes to Vietnamese immigrants, and visitParis and Vietnam. “People are more polite in Europe and Canada.I won’t go to Japan or China because it’s too noisy and too manypeople.” Dai found me very humorous and laughed hystericallyduring our photo shoot.69
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