The Taboo of Mental Health and Black Men


 To many times in the Black community, mental health issues go untreated, undiagnosed and misunderstood. Here is an interesting perspective on the the mental health of Black men.
Monday Aug 15, 2011 – by


I’ve always been fearful those long couches would give away my secret—even though I had an uncomfortable many of them.

For years I was trapped in unresolved feelings that lingered from my childhood. I fell deeper and deeper into a near fatal depression as I aged, and I didn’t see myself coming out alive. I was singing the Black Boy Blues, lingering emptiness and devastation from growing up disproportionately Black and male in America. I knew I needed help.

Therapy was always out of the question, though.

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