Black Suicide: When Prayer is Not Enough

Hey all!

Here is a great link to an issue that we in the black community are in denial of: mental health and mental health issues.  Seems like we would be glad to embrace at least the idea that mental health and mental health services are something that is so needed in our community.  I mean, damn, you can't have 400 years of slavery, degradation, exploitation and institutional discrimination and NOT be affected by those dynamics long after official slavery had ended.

But as it was stated in this article, admission to a problem like this is seen and can be seen as a sign of "weakness."  That's so sad because the dialectic is the more operative here: what makes us most weak is denial of a problem that is so readily apparent.

Let me know what you think!

Here is the link:  NNED | Black Suicide: When Prayer is Not Enough