"Say It Loud! I'm Black and I'm Depressed" is Don Barbera's newest release. Straight, non-fiction, "Say It Loud," is a candid look at depression among black males in the United States. More importantly, it is a documented investigation of how a silent disease wreaks havoc in the African American community and many don't even know it is...
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"Say It Loud! I'm Black and I'm Depressed" is Don Barbera's newest release. Straight, non-fiction, "Say It Loud," is a candid look at depression among black males in the United States. More importantly, it is a documented investigation of how a silent disease wreaks havoc in the African American community and many don't even know it is happening! In 1999, the Surgeon General of the United States pointed out the black community in regard to mental health, after reports showed that neglected mental healthcare was worsening already existent problems, but nothing changed.
Six of the top ten causes of death in the black community, stroke, diabetes, heart disease, AIDS, murder and suicide, are all made worse by depression. Suicide is a foreign concept in the black community, but every day it takes the lives of 4.5 men every hour and in nearly every case, treatable depression was a prime factor. The statistics, the studies and the reality stand boldly on each page and let the reader know depression is not a laughing matter. It isn’t something you just get over. It isn’t something that you “snap out of,” or can pray away. It is a serious disease and is even more dangerous because it makes diseases that already affect the community disproportionately even worse.
As a community service, the book is a downloadable PDF or can be ordered as a paperback. Do yourself and your loved ones a favor and find out about depression. Too many things get swept under the carpet in the black community because we don’t want to be embarrassed or thought to be less than others, but when it comes to health, it is past time for standing up, we cannot afford to do otherwise!
Go to this site to download the PDF or order the book. http://www.lulu.com/content/5989158
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