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A 988 call reaches a crisis counselor in about a minute, costs nothing, and does not require your …
Cost keeps more people out of therapy than almost anything else, and there is no official national price …
Medicaid is the single largest payer for mental health services in the United States, and finding a therapist …
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Seasonal affective disorder is real depression on a seasonal clock, and it gets missed in Black adults whose …
Borderline personality disorder is real and treatable, but race shapes how it gets diagnosed. Black patients are more …
Social anxiety disorder is a persistent, treatable fear of being judged in social situations, and it is under-diagnosed …
If you are in crisis or thinking about suicide, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and …
Decades of research point to the church as the most-trusted, most-studied non-clinical setting for closing a treatment gap …
A 2012 Psychiatric Services systematic review by Sidney H. Hankerson found that African Americans underutilize traditional mental-health services …
A 2016 meta-analysis pooled 78 studies of culturally adapted psychological interventions covering 13,998 participants, 95 percent of whom …
A 2017 South Bronx cohort screened 24 percent of Black mothers positive for postpartum depression on the Edinburgh …
Between 2018 and 2021, the suicide rate among Black Americans ages 10 to 24 climbed 36.6 percent, the …
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale was developed in 1987 on white British women. The cutoff your OB circles …
Sherman James named John Henryism in 1983 after a sharecropper's son in eastern North Carolina who refused, on …
Black patients with bipolar disorder are routinely misdiagnosed with schizophrenia because clinicians over-weight psychotic symptoms and under-weight mood …
In December 2024, days before his 70th birthday, Denzel Washington got baptized and received his minister's license at …
DeMar DeRozan posted on Twitter in February 2018 that he was struggling with depression. The post moved the …
Black clients prefer Black therapists at moderate-to-strong rates across 52 studies. Race matching alone barely changes treatment outcomes. …
Black Americans carry one of the highest lifetime rates of PTSD of any group in the country, and …
In March 2022, the American Psychiatric Association added prolonged grief disorder to the DSM-5-TR, codifying a diagnosis for …
Anxiety is your body's alarm system firing when there is no real emergency, and it shows up as …
Depression in Black women is too often pushed through, mislabeled, and left untreated. It can show up less …
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not vanity or a phase, and Black women have them at rates …
OCD is not a preference for neatness or a personality quirk. It is an anxiety-related disorder built on …
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