“Let’s bring more awareness,' Bertha Loaiza said. 'It’s OK to talk about the ugly stuff because it could be a lot uglier if we don’t.” - NBCLatino
Bertha Loaiza is on a mission to remove the shame around mental health issues, especially suicide, among fellow Latinos.Loaiza, now 32, was 3 when her mother carried her to the edge of California's San Diego-Coronado bridge and jumped with her in her arms.
But at 17, she discovered the truth while she was cleaning her house. Loiza found a tape that included a news story about a little girl who was recovering after her mother jumped off a bridge on Aug. 4, 1985. Loaiza was consumed by a torrent of questions: Why would her mom do that? Why hadn't anyone spoken about this? But at first, she didn’t mention her discovery to her family.That's not surprising, according to Luis Sandoval, a Los Angeles-based psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente. Mental health is an especially “taboo” topic among Hispanics, he said.Studies show that fewer than 1 in 11 Latinos contact.
“We have a strong belief that how people see you is how they’re going to treat you," Sandoval said."There’s no in-between; you’re normal or you’re loco, crazy. And you don’t want to be labeled as crazy.”
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