Though the topic of mental health has slowly become less taboo in general, stigma around it still exists -- particularly in communities of color.
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- This Black History Month, ABC7 is highlighting people and organizations working to Build a Better Bay Area. In the South Bay, one group is working hard to address mental health.
"We've been ostracized in a number of ways, we are not welcomed into a lot of spaces where a dominant culture abides," said Dr. Glenna Anderson, an African-American mental health therapist."And so when we think of it like that, and this is my one personal theory, we don't necessarily want to do things that are going to further ostracize us."
"'What happens in my house stays in my house' and so there's a certain level of privacy that people like to maintain and a certain level of pride that people have in not wanting to share, what we could consider, our dirty laundry with who we would consider a stranger," Dr. Glenna said."We're making it known that therapy, as Dr. Glenna would say, is a lifestyle.
Those Monday meetings are free therapy-based wellness sessions, open to all. They've been happening virtually every other week since October.
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