BIPOC mental health


Over the years, my parents had thought of me as a weak, hypersensitive woman, ungrateful to God’s many gifts.


In minority and marginalized communities, mental health is often considered a taboo or weakness--something I’ve heard should be “taken to God.” Treatment for mental illness is spoken about in even…


I remember precisely the day that I first heard the word “depression” float into the air and for some reason the word landed heavily on me in a foreshadowing manner.


For more than twenty years of my life, I struggled with major depression and suicide ideation.

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