Why We Don’t Talk About Mental Health in the Black Community—and Why We Have to Start

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Why We Don’t Talk About Mental Health in the Black Community—and Why We Have to Start
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'I started to view caring for my mental health as a revolutionary act, a form of resistance to the forces of oppression that were threatening to extinguish me, a working-class black woman.'

“There’s a history of being denigrated or dehumanized and not wanting to have one more thing be wrong,” Washington says. Mental health doesn’t top the priorities list. “We don’t have time to be sad or depressed because we have too many things we have to deal with right now.”

Robinson agrees: "There’s always been this history of teaching us where our place is and where it isn’t. So you are born out of a legacy of trauma—historical trauma—and in the current day you still experience it. It only makes for individuals to be distrustful of larger institutions.” She adds that sometimes messages about mental health and spirituality clash. Some traditions hold that "if you’re not well or great or happy it’s because of a lack of faith, [or] because you haven’t prayed right, because you haven’t given right,” she says. “Those kinds of things negate the experiences that people have around mental health.”

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