For many Asians, therapy is taboo \u2013 but a year after LA\u2019s worst mass shooting, some elders in the community are embracing it<\/p>\n
For the past 50 years, Shally Ung hadn\u2019t spent much time thinking about the carnage she\u2019d seen growing up in her native Cambodia. But those scenes of bombs raining down on Phnom Penh came roaring back on Lunar New Year last year, when a gunman opened fire at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in Monterey Park and killed 11 people. Ung\u2019s dance partner for nearly two decades, Andy Kao, was shot in the chest and died beside her under a table.<\/p>\n
The 21 January 2023 attack was the worst mass shooting in Los Angeles county history, hitting the heart of Monterey Park\u2019s large Asian immigrant community. Flashbacks of the horror, as well as her childhood memories, haunted her for months, said Ung, 59.<\/p>\n
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