Black Pain: It Just Looks Like We're Not Hurting
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| Rating | : | 4.84 (989 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743298837 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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The book is a mirror turned on you. In Black Pain, Terrie has inspired the famous and the ordinary to speak out and mental health professionals to offer solutions. You are not on the ledge alone.. She had no clue what was wrong or if there was a way out. As she healed, her mission became clear: break the silence of this crippling taboo and help those who suffer. It's time to recognize it and work through our trauma. She had hit rock bottom and she needed and got help. She knows because she's one of them. Terrie had made it: she had launched her own public relations company w
Decades later, that sense of pride has morphed into bling that hides the pain of poverty and racism. The result has been depression expressed through violence, addiction, suicide as well as obesity and hypertension. . The stoicism blacks are taught in order to not appear weak in the eyes of other black people only leads to denial and isolation. However, Williams is dedicated to convincing her fellow African-Americans that assistance is readily available, whether through counseling, medicine or self-help: There is no need for you to suffer alone or in silence. This liberal insertion of case reports coupled with a plethora of block quotes can bog down the text. From Publishers Weekly Black Power masks Black Pain, says Williams, a social worker and founder of a successful public relations firm. (Jan.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Help is out there. She begins with her own tribulations with depression. From there
Let's Start Talking Millions of black people are needlessly suffering from depression. Even when the symptoms of depression are raging and screaming inside of us, too many of us are not doing anything to seek help. Could it be a lack of knowledge about the disease? Could it be the stigma that depression is a mental illness and we are ashamed to be associated with a disease such as this? Would we choose cancer or high blood pressure, would we choose a heart attack? NO. Neither do we choose depression.Terrie Williams latest book "Black Pain, It just looks like We Aren't Hurting" is a literary treasure.. "A Reading Must" according to math diva. This book was so powerful, that when sharing a few passages with my husband, it became clear that each of us had to have our own copy. We have since recommended this book to numerous friends. It is the book selection for my book club this month. Though difficult to read, with the staggering statistics, this book explains so many of the problems plaguing the African American Community. Each of us has family members that are recognized in these pages. This book is well written and goes in to so many avenues that affect people of all ages. Every educator of students of color should r. A. Williams said outstanding title with a social context for mental illness and the African American community. Mental health issues are a source of embarrasment,and of a desire to stay under the radar in the Black American community. Williams's book may help families and individuals come to grips, and realize that there are sources of help and save lives and communities. Frequently, the sense of isolation that many people with a mental illness have is exacerbated due to a feeling that these illnesses will be viewed as less tolerable in found in a people still viewed by some in America as genetically, and socially inferior. If it helps people exhale and get help it will be valuable. I recom