African Americans & Depression: Denying the Darkness
One of the primary symptoms associated with the trauma of incest and child molestation is depression, and much in the same way that blacks go to great lengths to pretend that incest is not an issue of relevance among us, we emphatically deny the impact that depression, as a mental disorder, is having on us as a collective.
One of the primary symptoms associated with the trauma of incest and child molestation is depression, and much in the same way that blacks go to great lengths to pretend that incest is not an issue of relevance among us, we emphatically deny the impact that depression, as a mental disorder, is having on us as a collective.
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