Dr. Annelle B. Primm, Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) & Director of the APA’s Office of Minority and National Affairs answers…
Iyanla Vanzant has a message for African-Americans as it relates to mental health. Stop hiding. The teacher, educator and healer who is the host of…
Today on “NewsOne Now“ with Roland Martin, mental health advocate Terrie M. Williams and psychologist Dr. Jeff Gardere held a frank conversation on mental health in the Black community. Williams urges…
The man who gunned down 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard, the woman who tried to ram her car into a White House barricade,…
Finish this sentence for me. If I had a son, he’d look like? The President said Trayvon. If I had a son he’d look like…
How could it have been avoided? That is the question that lingers nearly five months after NFL player Jovan Belcher (pictured left) shot and killed…
Exposure to violent video games. A failure to take medication to treat mental illness or a development disorder. Access to assault weapons. And is it…
If you are an avid music lover like myself, you most likely woke up this morning with a song floating around in your mind. That song followed you through your daily routines, rolling around in your head like the apple in your lunch bag, causing you to hum along and maybe even dance a bit […]
Let’s just face it: life can be pretty overwhelming at times. If you are holding down every aspect of your life: family, social life, career, love/sex, spiritual life etc. – then you know what it’s like for relationships and situations to constantly evolve, grow, move and change. Yet, life can quickly carry us away, leaving […]
PHOENIX — Rapper DMX, real name Earl Simmons has been placed in a mental health unit in Phoenix, Arizona. Earl Simmons was transferred to an Arizona State Prison Complex facility called Alhambra near 25th Street and Van Buren. He was admitted on Dec. 20. He is not allowed to have visitors for 30 days. Earlier […]
Young Black men killing each other in urban ghettos and rising levels of unemployment are threatening to drown us in a cycle of poverty and crime. The horror stories are well publicized and we’re well acquainted with the statistics of undereducation, unemployment, and overincarceration. Despite those odds, there is a growing number of Black men […]
VIA: FamilyDoctor.Org What Causes Depression? Depression is related to chemical in-balance in the brain that makes it hard for the cells to communicate with each other. Depression can be triggered by a number of things including: stressful life events, drug or alcohol abuse, other illnesses, it can even be hereditary. What Are The Symptoms? Feeling […]
