Episode 10: Blackness, Mental Health and Suicide

Favorite Librarian, the Podcast

This week, join Your Favorite Librarian for this week's episode exploring specific issues and stigmas of Mental Health for People of Color, especially with Black and African communities.
Divided into 4 sections, jump knee deep into the conversation at your own pace.

I. Diagnosis, Disabilities, and Diets
II. Self-soothe, self-medicate, and self-isolate
III. Where is your support?
IV. Third Home: The Need to Connect

This week's paired title comes from Your Favorite Librarian's favorite author-- "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf" by Ntozake Shange.
From the difference in professional and holistic help, self-diagnosis vs professional opinions and information, the trauma of dissociation and detachment, along with how to be your own cheerleader and not your best critic.
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