One in four adults and 20% of youth ages 13 to 18 deal with mental illnesses. In the past few years, mental illness awareness and education has greatly increased, in large part due to social media and specifically, mental …
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These Incredible People Are Changing How Isolated Asian Groups …
As well as treating Hmong patients, Lo is conducting research to better understand how mental illness is understood in the community — finding that previous efforts to do so had gotten lost in translation. The few psychiatrists …
Report Implicates Societal, Health Care Systems In Early Mortality of …
In general, people with mental disorders tend to die decades earlier than the general population, mostly as a result of preventable and treatable chronic.
21 Black People Give Their Best Advice For Taking Care Of Your …
One of the major things holding me back from pursuing more mental health care and (more so) medicinal intervention is how people will interpret my seeking a prescription. Black people are already considered “delinquents,” …
Here's What 21 Black People Have To Say About Getting Therapy
Mental illness can affect anyone, but for people of color, the experience of the illness itself is often compounded (or even caused) by racism, microaggressions, and community-specific stigma. Racism and stereotypes about …