You listening to Carmody Central the holiday season, is finally upon us, and you know what that means: family, decorations and an old man breaking into your house, while the children are asleep. I still don't understand how that's illegal, but unfortunately, for a lot of people This can also be a tough time emotionally. They call it the most wonderful time of the year, but the holidays can also bring boatloads of stress it or not the risks, the thing s festive stress holidays are typically the busy at the time of year for mental Health, professional sixty four percent of people experience feelings of anxiety or depression during the holidays. Yes, the trolls out the holiday season is the worst time for anxiety and depression, which makes sense to think about this. Your whole family and their either not doing well or there

doing better than you either way it sucks now. One thing people can do is book more time with their therapist, but unfortunately that's not an option for everyone and its especially challenging for black people, but let's find out why that is in another instalment of. If you dont know now, you know, There are few groups who could stand to benefit from therapy more than black people. I mean think about all the things black people have been through slavery, segregation Winter equally traumatic experiences, but unfortunately, even US therapy has become more mainstream. The black community has had a tough time getting.

Help, but they need it's hard enough to get mental health treatment in the? U S, but studies show that racial and ethnic minorities are significantly less likely to receive mental health treatment than whites. Luck in despair that children, unless likely to get mental health care than white kids. Studies show that irritability and the average white teenager is often label, does depression. That same behaviour is more likely to be seen as disruptive in black and white team of children and doctors say that can lead to feelings of hopelessness at a very young age. Yes, one of the reasons many black people dont get. The proper treatment is Miss diagnosis. What is seen as depression and why people can be seen as disruptive behind in black people and the shouldn't be surprising. This kind of thing happens in medicine all the time. Mixed diagnosis is like when a black person has a seizure, it's a medical emergency, but when a white person doesn't it

hold dancing, but it turns out it turns out. Even when black people are properly diagnosed with mental health issues, it can still be a challenge to find a therapist whose equipped to handle their needs, making the. As worse, not enough african american therapists. Today, only four percent of psychologists are blue. Kevin burdens, as in meeting he needed help was actually easier than finding. It he's all three different therapists, but felt it None of them understood the stress and emotions unique to black men, went to Roger Pay, hence its own son Marcel was struggling. She found it nearly impossible to find him. One try to find a culturally competent thereupon was like local for a purple unicorn with a gold coin. Do they understand the cultural context from which I come in

from do. They understand the culture that I live in. That's right. It's extremely difficult for black people to find a black therapist we like this for a very, very long time. I mean that's why Martin Luther King Jr was always describing his dreams to huge crowds Just like I had another dream, but I'm being chased by bears and my underwear does anyone here know what that means. Now now you may think you may think that a therapist race shouldn't matter at all and that's true, but if you think about it, it does make sense for many white therapists, no matter how good they are. It can be hard to understand the particular experiences of a black person. Sitting then a session, even if they trying you could be like. So you say, people are following you around the store and you are invisible, but only the taxi drivers- parent

delusion so when it comes to mental health, is a very real struggle for black people to access healthcare diagnosed correctly and find a therapist who can relate to them, but If that wasn't bad enough, there's another major hurdle, stopping black people from getting therapy, and it comes from the black community itself. We have stigma in the black community when it comes to dealing with mental health. Black student save where they come from its shameful to talk about anxiety, depression and trauma, not ok, to have me to have a huge, warlike. That's a white people of her. Now tat black men. Don't gotta there be they go to the barbershop. I told my own mother that I was seeing a therapist and she said you don't need to see them. What you need to do is say: a preacher got Jesus. You mean anything now this book it up here, that's a lie, Every black person knows all too well. You don't need there you mean Jesus, I my responses, always why can't we use both because church is a great place where community

but syrupy is great for one on one mental health needs. I mean I've been Jesus himself wish you could gone to therapy at times. You know what I saw. Aspirin betrayed me. I was born in a broken barn plus my birth. There, which falls on Christmas morning at once at present, is so sitting. So, yes, part of the problem. Part of the problem is that. The major stigma and the black community around therapy. And, honestly, I can understand why any black people would rather deal with problems at church. It's a familiar place for us, but you trust the people there, and this was a fun atmosphere. Acterrally doesn't seem, fund, churches is cool. I get it in fact. That's what I was thinking, maybe maybe that's one way we could try and help solve this therapy crisis. We need to make therapy a little bit more like black church, and I think it will be. Need help our notice really hard for me to let people in, and I feel like only because a redemption

affection? It just feels like weakness, it I'll hit at the Geneva brother, Djibouti, just say it right here rather, Djibouti said that he can't show affection, because it feels like weakness, but before we can understand what you gotta understand, who who hurt your brother Djibouti? While I probably say my my father. Does he was really emotionally distant, but then so is his father, which is probably where he got it from the sands of the file has now generation to generation. What would break this other than a reflective analysis, the goals of the need to solve? Actualize

What was the lack of actual lap what is more gagging memory, his dysfunctional, applauded intimacy, see Where did this next week Thank you so much. I just been going through Latin. It was really helpful, sorry, it should actually be covered. I've been cross Son Rosamond Network is Jesus

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