In fact, the headline does not represent what is actually happening. Once upon a time, short-sighted commentators considered youth suicide mostly a “white problem”. The reason for that was that the rates for white youth were significantly higher than other groups, but this kind of increase shows just how short-sighted that was. “Calling black youth…
I truly believe this is: The deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and most recently George Floyd, among countless lives lost at the hands of police brutality — in addition to simultaneously experiencing a disproportionate rate of deaths from COVID-19 — has left many people of color fighting through psychological warfare. During this mental health…
Why I believe it’s important to talk about mental health Podcast: Lazy, Crazy, and Disgusting – How Stigma is Everywhere Understanding how prevalent mental illness is in America Black lives matter. Black mental health matters too “Black people are 7 times more likely to live in areas with limited access to mental health care.” –…
This sounds really familiar… Countless people are wondering if the discomfort they’re experiencing is “normal” or if others are in the same boat. Not only is the feeling normal given the circumstances. It has a name: adjustment disorder. Clinically speaking, adjustment disorder is a stress response syndrome people experience in light of an identifiable life…
It’s always nice when a study backs up what you’ve written about before. “It often helps to smile at others to ease social tensions. Recognizing a smile is much more difficult when the mouth is covered. You’d think so. But I and my colleagues know from one of our studies, which will be published soon,…
I, frankly, did not realize these statistics about therapists, but if I stop to think much about it, I’m not surprised. According to a 2015 study by the American Psychological Association, 83.6 percent of psychologists are White, while only 14.6 percent combined are Black, Latinx and Asian (and that doesn’t even account for Native Americans and other minority communities). While therapists specialize in a variety of…
