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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
so what if i'm crazy?

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According to the mythology that surrounds the strength of African Americans, "falling apart" is just not something we do. We know how to "handle our business," "be a man" or "be a woman." We see therapy as the domain of "weak," neurotic people who don't know what "real problems" are. Instead, to deal with our psychic pain we eat our way into life-threatening obesity, excessively use alcohol and drugs and act out violently through word and deed, but we do not go crazy.


Because being "crazy" means you can't handle life, and in our story of who we are, we are survivors who can handle anything, which means that we do what we have to do to survive. But this does not usually include a trip to the mental health professional of our choice. It is time to add this to our survival toolkit.


Read the rest of the blog piece on Huffington Post


Ruth C. White, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S.W. is the author of Bipolar 101: A Practical Guide to Identifying Triggers, Managing Medications, Coping with Symptoms, and More
Posted By adia / 5:03 PM / Tuesday, August 16, 2011
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