Confronting Black mental health stigma after Modesto upbringing [modbee.com]
By Darius Stovall, The Modesto Bee, February 10, 2021 “You are not depressed” is a sentence that I have heard in my family a lot. As an African American man, the word “depression” was colored as dirty, better yet heresy. Mental health was not viewed as something that I needed to be a successful Black man. I needed God, good test scores, and connections to people who could put me in places I couldn’t get into by myself. Black culture and mental health have always been as separate as the East...