Mental Health
Depressive Rumination: Stopping Negative Thinking
“You’re going to worry yourself sick”, was my mother’s ring tone. Those seemingly meaningless words crashed softly to the ground in my youth and young adulthood. Unfortunately, in 2005 with my life completely unmanageable did the phrase make its way home. After suffering from major depression and depressive rumination for over twenty years, I learned [...]
3 Tactics to Help Depressed Men Now
Psychotherapy and anti-depressive medication eventually cured my 20-year struggle with depression. Nevertheless, not gently, I fought tooth and nails against diagnosis and treatment. In 2005 however my unmanageable life slapped me in the face, it hurt really bad; I sought help.
“It takes a Village to Raise a Violent Child.”
Young black boys like myself was all to willing to demonstrate brutality also as men. Remember we were raised to physically fight; as a result the straps on our naked ass may have created insensitivity to aggression. After countless hostile recollections that haunted me; my vicious psyche was deconstructed a few years ago. Sadly in those memories were violent intentions meant to seriously injure or kill the person; literally. I am ashamed how a (Village) raised its children to fight where homicide became the norm.
Depression and Gay Black Men, Silence in the Hood
In the case of homosexuality among black men, its denial has ravaged the community and particularly black women… According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black women made up 67 percent of AIDS diagnoses among women in 2004 and of all women living with AIDS, 64 percent are estimated to be black…
