Dedicated to Promoting Mental Health in the Black Community (841 hits)
Here at BlackMentalHealthNet.com, we appreciate the strengths of the Black community while acknowledging its unique challenges, both in a broader social sense, and specifically in matters of mental health.
Untreated or undertreated mental illness can be limiting, disabling and even life threatening. Furthermore, the current economic, legal, and educational environments leave little room for error: without mental health, progress is fragile, and hurdles can become impassable obstacles.
This website was created with the premise that the Black community’s traditional reluctance to discuss mental health and illness comes with much too high a cost (especially in such a climate as this). Here you will find informative articles and videos about mental illness and treatment as well as educational content about strategies for mental illness prevention, mental health promotion and positive coping. There are also opportunities to have virtual discussions about mental health topics through our forum.
Our goal is that this website’s visitors, armed with information and bolstered by the testimonies of others, will feel empowered to act as agents of change in their own lives, in the lives of their loved ones, and in their communities. http://www.blackmentalhealthnet.com/
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Hi Jen, Thank you for sharing this resource. Mental health is still very much devalued and misunderstood in our communities. As a counselor, personal growth practitioner, workshop facilitator, writer - and sister to 5 siblings who are living with mental illness; I am encouraged by your site. Good Luck! Phyllis M. Alston, Owner/Founder Powerful Living Corporation www.powerfullivingcorp.com www.facebook.com/powerfullivingcorp
Now we can help some of the "brothers" out in dealing with some of our Women and vice-versa of course (LOL)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Sunday, August 11th 2013 at 3:20PM
Yaiqab Saint
Yes, and thanks for the comments to the blog Phyllis and Saint. It's true that this issue isn't talked about enough in our community and so many of our young men are incarcerated with mental illnesses. Just think if the illness had been diagnosed and treated promptly/properly that perhaps they wouldn't be in jail.
I for one think its time out for us to stop tabling mental disorders and giving 'so called crazy people' in our communities the brush off. I remember when Black in America CNN special aired there was this one woman who clearly in my mind had clinical Depression and had like 6 or 8 kids. Like she had these kids like one after another and she knew she could care for them and she couldn't tell Soledad why she had these children as they were not planned.
I can go on and on, but I won't. It's no reason for us in 2013 to continue to suffer. We have to be proactive as a community and help ourselves a little more than we are presently.
