in May, between 2014 and 2019, the age-adjusted suicide rate in Black individuals increased by 30 percent.
“So people are trying to escape, not really wanting to kill themselves,” Butler said. “That’s the mechanism by which we can escape permanently. But at the core of suicide is this need to escape the painful reality that we’re living in. So the pandemic compounded all of this stuff, and many of us just wanted to escape.”
Her organization provides qualified applicants eight free therapy sessions and matches clients with mental health experts based on their needs. Sulaiman said since launching the program, her own preconceived notion that Black men did not want therapy has been debunked by the large number of applicants.
She said Black men who are sharing their experiences transparently are “automatically killing the secrecy — and if they’re normalizing, they’re killing the shame.” “People think isolation means ‘I go into a dark room and close the door,’” she said. “We can isolate in plain view.”
NBCBLK SO DAMN SICK of this PANDERING...BLAME , BLAME, BLAME. WHERE IS THE WORD 'RESPONSIBILITY'
NBCBLK اقسم لكم انهم يتدربون علينا الاطفال والنساء يتحدثون عن التدريب