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My parents are first generation immigrants, and I am their first child. I was born in 1970, and my brother was born four years later. We have spent our entire lives in Los Angeles, attending the public schools here. My father has his own business and my mother stays at home, spending most of her time with church work as well as being a traditional housewife and mother.

My childhood was uneventful. Most of my memories are of spending time with my mother while she did her various chores. My dad was always busy with his work, and it seemed to me from my child-like perspective that he was often worried. He came home late each day, tired, sometimes short-tempered. I wonder in retrospect if he was concerned about his ability to "make it" in this country. My mother did not really know what to do to assist him, other than just keep a nice house and try to shelter my father from the mundane day-to-day details of living. It seemed that our home atmosphere was dark and oppressive.

I did have fun with children in the neighborhood. Although I was rather shy, even as a child, the other children liked me and wished to play together. For whatever reason, my parents discouraged

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est in thinking about myself in relation to my family annoyances. It was his tenet that there were powerful tendencies in women--both sexual and aggressive--that motivated many of their actions (Freeman, 1981, p. 224). He argued that social customs often serve to suppress women's normal aggressive tendencies and force women into passive situations. This feels true for me. I have a normal, youthful amount of energy and aggression but no appropriate channel for it that does not cause distress within my family. Freud noted that among little children, the girls are often as aggressive as the boys, leaving nothing to be desired in the way of motor force and violence. He says that such aggression is the driving energy behind both work and love (Freeman, 1981, p. 225). I don't really feel that in myself in a pure form. It seems that I always have to moderate, moderate, moderate in order to not upset the people closest to me. Experts in the area of psychological health caution us regarding the repression of anger and fear. To much control in this area apparently may cause depression. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the symptoms of depression include irritable mood, fatigue, indecisivene
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