Schizophrenia: Kim Ngan Nguyen

Kim Ngan Nguyen: The 62-year-old Vietnamese immigrant says she had no idea what schizophrenia was when her psychiatrist in Toronto handed her the diagnosis in 1983, two years after she moved here with her husband, according to The Star. Its not in the Vietnamese language, said Nguyen, who was hospitalized for the first time in 1978 while studying in university in Japan. I was too afraid to tell anyone I had mental health illness and For almost 25 years, since the onset of her schizophrenic symptoms, Kim Ngan Nguyen did not know why she heard voices and saw things that other people did not. She never spoke about her mental illness with her friends and family, not even to her husband when he passed away a decade ago. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.