Category: Mental Health

  • Stefán

    Self-Care: Why is it important?

    Contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t take a lot to care for oneself. One area that I tend to see that people lack is maintaining self-care. What is self-care you ask? Merriam-Webster defines self-care as, care for oneself. That’s right, it is honestly just taking care of yourself. We tend to become so wrapped up […]

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    Mental Health and a Black Gay Man

    When people hear mental health, they often associate it with disorders and behaviors. Well, mental health is much more broad that just that. Mental health is also insecurities, oppression, fear, and anxiety. Mental health is trauma by subjection to the actions and thoughts of others. Mental health is the infestation of the denial towards unpopular […]

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    Black Youth Mental Health Matters Too

    While scrolling through social media, I ran across an article titled “Researchers unclear why suicide is increasing among black children.” I begin to read the article and learned some troubling facts about how the rate of suicide has increased amongst black youth. It then dawned on me, I’ve worked in several schools and not once […]

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    Black Men: Your Feelings Matter Too

    To my Black brother, your feelings matter too. Too many times have we been told in our youth, “boys don’t cry.” To, “get up” or “suck it up” because that is what men do. It is these very instances that have led to us holding on to our unconscious ideologies of hyper masculinity. The concepts […]

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    Statistics

    The Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health reports that, African Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population. The most common disorders are major depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), suicide (young African American men), and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). It is also reported that […]

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    Speaking My Truth

    I am a firm believer that I cannot be a good advocate for mental health, unless I speak my truth. I have always been told, “you don’t have to tell people your business,” or “everyone doesn’t need to know, xy and z.”  It is this belief that holds us back from being true to ourselves. […]