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"Memo Uribe is poor and didn't have enough money to buy Christmas presents for his family of eight this year, but the 63-year-old Mexican-American says he's happy.
"There's an old dicho (proverb), 'Mejor salud que dinero,'" Uribe says. "It's better to have good health than money. My family and I are blessed and especially thank God for that."
Uribe gives face to a recent study that found older Mexican-Americans are less likely to show symptoms of depression if they live in neighborhoods with a large proportion of other Mexican-Americans.
The study - published in the current issue of the Journal of Epidemiology Community Health - also suggests that their comparatively high rates of employment, family structures and residential stability make them less prone to depression than other ethnic groups."
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"Wang said the findings may suggest alternatives to medicine when it comes to depression, like family support and spirituality.
"In general, Anglos tend to think more about depression," Wang said. "Whereas Hispanics will typically just tell me, 'Times are tough,"Life is hard,' or they tell me they're just 'nervioso' (nervous).
"Their priorities are typically family, spirituality and religion. And these priorities seem to lend balance to stress in their lives and uplift their spirits."
Diana Sifuentes, who works as an attendant at an Albuquerque laundry, said she isn't afraid to admit that from time to time she has money problems.
She knows that even though the majority of her family lives in California, they'll be there for her to lend emotional or financial support should she really need it.
"I have four brothers and one sister," she said. "And we're always there for each other.""
Maybe if people in America places more emphasis on God, raising morally healthy families (maybe giving the gift of brothers and sisters - plural - to their kids)and being less materialistic we wouldn't have so much depression, neurosis and the many problems associated with psychological sickness.
"Memo Uribe is poor and didn't have enough money to buy Christmas presents for his family of eight this year, but the 63-year-old Mexican-American says he's happy.
"There's an old dicho (proverb), 'Mejor salud que dinero,'" Uribe says. "It's better to have good health than money. My family and I are blessed and especially thank God for that."
Uribe gives face to a recent study that found older Mexican-Americans are less likely to show symptoms of depression if they live in neighborhoods with a large proportion of other Mexican-Americans.
The study - published in the current issue of the Journal of Epidemiology Community Health - also suggests that their comparatively high rates of employment, family structures and residential stability make them less prone to depression than other ethnic groups."
and...
"Wang said the findings may suggest alternatives to medicine when it comes to depression, like family support and spirituality.
"In general, Anglos tend to think more about depression," Wang said. "Whereas Hispanics will typically just tell me, 'Times are tough,"Life is hard,' or they tell me they're just 'nervioso' (nervous).
"Their priorities are typically family, spirituality and religion. And these priorities seem to lend balance to stress in their lives and uplift their spirits."
Diana Sifuentes, who works as an attendant at an Albuquerque laundry, said she isn't afraid to admit that from time to time she has money problems.
She knows that even though the majority of her family lives in California, they'll be there for her to lend emotional or financial support should she really need it.
"I have four brothers and one sister," she said. "And we're always there for each other.""
Maybe if people in America places more emphasis on God, raising morally healthy families (maybe giving the gift of brothers and sisters - plural - to their kids)and being less materialistic we wouldn't have so much depression, neurosis and the many problems associated with psychological sickness.
