It is quite simple to quickly diagnose one with a mental illness. When an individual seeks out a mental health professional, most times the only thing that the mental health professional is looking for, is a diagnosis within the individual, as opposed to really listening carefully to the words that the individual is attempting to convey. If the individual does not outwardly display signs of more severe mental illness, almost always the mental health professional will place a diagnosis of “depression” upon the individual, which will follow them for a lifetime.
In the Black Community, mental health is a whole different type of thing. The “Black struggle in America” contributes largely to the so-called mental health in the Black Community. How can Black people not be depressed if they are continually held back from everything in America, not to mention the difficulties, obstacles and laws in place if a Black person wants to leave America altogether. Of course, Black people will be sad and uninspired; however, this doesn’t warrant a diagnosis of a mental illness. The only mental illness one suffers in the Black Community is spiritual and mental poverty, manufactured and developed by those whom claim to be “the ruling elite.”
When Black people learn that they have the power to free themselves from all that they think is oppressive, the struggle of mental health in the Black Community will end. There is no medicine in this world or the next that will cure a mind of spiritual and mental poverty.
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