E44 - First-Gen Mental Health: Breaking the Stigma with Jaehyun Cho, PA-C

What happens when the pressure to be perfect becomes a mental health crisis? On this episode, Jaehyun Cho, PA-C, CAQ-Psychiatry, and founder of Placid Psychiatry in Fullerton, CA, joins us on the Break the Psycle Podcast to explore the intersection of first-generation American identity and mental health. Jaehyun shares his own journey from arriving in the United States in eighth grade without speaking English to becoming one of the most thoughtful voices in interventional psychiatry. The conversation dives into why traditional antidepressants are failing so many patients, how Spravato is rewiring the brain in ways pills simply cannot, and why mental health stigma runs especially deep in Korean, Middle Eastern, and other multicultural households. Jaehyun also breaks down the cultural gap between immigrant parents and their first-gen children, and why that disconnect is quietly fueling a depression and anxiety epidemic that the mental health system is not built to address. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.