Category: Mental Health in Black Community
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How Do You Show Love To Yourself?
Let us start off with a small exercise: Please make a list of people that you love. No matter how long that list is, hopefully you have also included yourself to it. A lot of the time when asked to mention people we love, we have a tendency to mention everyone else but ourselves; the…
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The Devious Trickster That Is High Functioning Depression
What comes to mind when one mentions “depression?” I imagine a lot of us would think, “sad”, “low energy”, “suicidality”, “no appetite”, and all other typical symptoms of a Major Depressive Disorder, also known as Clinical Depression. And so, when one is presenting with high energy, euthymic mood, a healthy appetite and/or other presentations that…
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The Black Man’s Mental Health
Recently, there has been a lot of reports of people in the limelight committing suicide, be it internationally or locally (South Africa). To name a few, it was unfortunate that the likes of Cheslie Kryat (former Miss USA), Ian Alexander (Regina King’s son), Patrick Shai (Lengendary South African actor), and most recently, Rikhado “Ricky Rick”…
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Mental Health in the Black Community
“Only white people get mental illnesses.” What a provocative statement. How controversial! It is quite perturbing to hear this statement uttered time and time again when a person of colour is confronted with the possibility that they might not be coping with what life is dishing up for them at that given season/time. It is…
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